Another one:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1386047

I'll be curious to see who's hardware is under the covers when it eventually ships. D&M Holdings (Denon/Marantz Chinese stuff) seems like a likely candidate.

Best,

I appreciate the fact that some posters have an awfull lot of equipment that they no longer use but I fail to see how mentioning it / the country of origin is helpful to other users of the forum.

It would be like a member of automotive forum listing out every Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Saturn, Mercury, AMC, DeSoto et cetera that they may have once driven and mentioning how poorly constructed vehicles from Detroit or Springhill or Milwaukee were...

More than a little annoying that these sorts of things are still in the "978 Release Date" thread too.

If it's annoying, don't read it. The world is a big place and perhaps there are some folks in it that have opinions that diverge from yours.

*shrug*

Indeed.

Perhaps if info not related to the 978 Release Date is confined to a separate thread that would be helpful...

Since Outlaw has been mum on the release date, I guess we can close this thread altogether if that is the only subject we are permitted to discuss. My guess on the release date is 4/1/2012. Anyone else??

I think someone with only 8 posts (75% of them are in this thread) in 10 years ought to decide what gets to be discussed in this forum. LOL

Best case guess for me is sometime in March or April. They won't get any useful work out of the Chinese until mid-February due to the new year festivities.

Best,

I think you've picked a very good over/under date. I'm going to take the under since Peter mentioned the purpose of Scott's visit to China was to address "several software issues" standing in their way. Software issues can be quickly solved or take months. The fact that Scott had to go to China to solve them could mean that's all it'll take to finalize the 978, or it could be so serious it requires his presence. I'm going to be optimistic and say first quarter is the new target and they'll soon be taking preorders. Call me crazy, I know.

I'll take over. I think Outlaw's conservative approach is going to drive the release date later rather than sooner.

Maybe Outlaw can offer a little additional discount for those who get the over/under correct?

The only audio manufacturer that releases products on 4/1 is that famous firm run by one Dr. Loof Lirpa.

Funny that there is no shortage of cell phones, tablet computers, flat screen displays or any of the many other products that must be manufactured through the "traditional flight to the countryside" that happens around the "new year's festivities"...

On the interwebs humor vs sarcasm are hard to discern and the saying of 18th century French playwright / satirist Caron de Beaumarchais is most fully seen: "It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."