If it makes you feel better, we haven't gotten any details beyond what was in the original announcement - so it's not just you...

As for the biamp feature, I wonder how much benefit it will have for the 997 - it's just a pre-amp, so the biamp trick is just internalizing a splitter cable. It would be convenient, so they may leave it rather than remote it, but it doesn't seen as compelling an option on a processor as on a receiver.

I also concur that an Outlaw phono preamp could be a nice little product...