Missing delivery dates is a common thing in this industry. Everybody under estimates the complexity of software development, and when you are dealing with delays from multiple suppliers (with interlocked dependencies), things snowball. Yet Outlaw Audio made it clear that they were waiting for the parent design to ship before the 997 would, so anyone could clearly track what was going on. I suppose that the 1070 would not have been discontinued as soon as it was had the 997 been ready on time, but they have made good on this with a real sweet deal on the 970 (and the supply of 970's will disappear real soon as a result).

For those that can't wait, there is always a good product from "0/I".