On Jul 4, 2004, at 11:50 AM, John R McDaniel wrote: >> The problem: after a while the sound becomes very scratchy and >> distorted. > > Do you have all energy saving options disabled, including sleep? > > have you looked at this page and tried everything suggested? > > <http://www.bias-inc.com/support/faq/cView.php?faq_id=5> So far so good after I changed the buffer size from 512 to 4000 or so as they suggested in the CoreAudio settings. Thank you John.