The AVS forum is now saying that the Sherwood Newcastle rep is quoting the R-972 availability for late March. This implies a Q2 delivery for the Outlaw 997.

Here are the reasons given for the delays:

Quote:
"There are several issues that are almost all solved:

1. The HQV Reon technology was sold in August and we had to re-establish technical support from the purchasing company.

2. We had many issues with how to support 96 kH and 192 kHz audio with Triinnov. We all wanted to maintain the same filter depth used in the Trinnov professional optimizer. For a while this was elusive and the CEDIA Expo demos (which garnered rave reviews from all who attended) actually used filters that were one-half as powerful and the professional box. Trinnov has now figured out how to restore the professional filters. That took some time.

3. The final issue has been user control. We actually have two small computers in the R-972 that translate user commands into the machine's language. Getting fully reliable command has been time consuming.
It sounds like we have much to look forward to!