I live in Irvine, so while I am happy to try my Empeg in your cradle, given that we've both got the same problem, I'm not sure what that would achieve.

Yeah, I don't think that would prove anything.

I did consider briefly that I might have a cheap amp...

Well, my amps were not cheap, so I think we can rule that out...
PPI PowerClass 4400.4
PPI PowerClass 2400.2

Has the download remained static? Is it possible that Tom and I have downloaded the same dud version.

I believe I downloaded the beta again when I first had this problem, I wanted to make sure it wasn't a corupted download issue before I reported it. I also just tried 2.0b3 consumer yesterday which was a new download.

Guess we just have to wait for next beta! Hope the empeg guys will figure something out. This is probably out of the question, but if they were up to making a debug bulid with some extra serial out info about what's going on, I'd be happy to report...

Tom