Originally posted by Alex Prosak: I just saw in the looooong Sherwood thread at AVS that Jeff (with Sherwood) indicated that the 972 is scheduled to hit the port on June 6, they will then go through QC and expect sufficient quantities to go to dealers by mid July. That should put the 997 into mid September at the earliest...so I'd assume seeing the 997 available in mid October.
LOL. That's the same Jeff that emailed me back in March and told me the R972 would arrive "sometime in April."
Given that even Sherwood doesn't have the final product in their hands yet (as of information I've seen until today, June 8), I think Gonk's somewhat pessimistic estimate is likely to be fairly accurate.