Another AIR WN's culprit

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I see. AIR was stable when streamed from iTunes. ETH/Wifi.

USB - not stable for me as I have stupid cable. Ordered AQ jitterbug and cable.

Now it's AirPlay : AE >Toslnk> Devialet.
Confused- Like Melco, Antipodes are primarily into USB out

Eh... no. AIR in the first versions only used iTunes as a file-path handler. It never used the sound output from iTunes. AIR was actually a complete stand alone player and transferred music data via its own communication to the amplifier. But this was wifi only, before the rj45 ethernet connection was added to the Expert amps. The new AIR is a virtual sound card designed to accept data from any player on your PC/Mac.
I think the 'old' AIR with cabled ethernet and some tuning (eliminating wifi instability) would have been better than the new virtual sound card model Devialet uses today.