> Thank you for all those details Julian. That is very helpful. The AAC > ripping speed is more than I was getting from the dual 867 - 13-14x > max. Excellent. Using a 52x reader? > It's even faster than our Dual 1GB MDD at work - it rips at 14x-16x. I use both a LiteOn 52x firewire and a Pioneer 105 firewire. Julian