well guess what i did ... i placed an order at dv247 yesterday. at least they answer to mails, in contrast to dolphin. i should post that story as a whole, really bad experience, i think. in between, i exchanged some mails with absolutemusic.co.uk, they seem pretty nice.
in the end, there s nothing DV can do about fender's delivery queue, i had to wait weeks and weeks for my cyclone II, a while ago. one would expect them to communicate that problem though.
i expect the TT to arrive by the end of the month -- the race is still on!