steve,

the 'problem' is with flacs than wioth mp3's - basically i get better jitter performance with mp3's than with flacs.

afaik it's an older model and not the upsampling version. i'm not a big fan of upsampling. i'll post the results up when i have them. the one i'm borrowing is from a private seller.

the dropouts i got were cured by (iirc) changing the server>behaviour>save history option to 'dont; save history' also for good measure i stopped nay other remembering of stuff as well. i don;t synch with itunes though as it strikes me a bit like hobbling a reasonably well designed system with the monster that is itunes.

cheers

julian