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[bobertk]

Again my apologies for all the questions.

I have been playing music for over 3 hours now with the laptop connected to the 200 with a USB cable, no dropouts at all. This is being played with Ethernet as the input ......so is this still using AIR.?

When I change the input to USB there is nothing there so I am now getting a little confused.

If this means I can use the laptop to get a stable connection for music playback this could be my fix for now. If this continues to work is it worth getting a decent USB cable like Nordost or Audioquest or will it make little difference as the music is on my NAS.

So you are still on AIR and the usb is superflous.  Now try it without the usb - and still without the ipad.   My guess is the ipad is/was your issue.   Is AIR app avail for Ipad, and is it installed and enabled?

This is what I was talking about when I said you need to isolate the problem.

You are getting somewhere...