Somewhere a little while back, I lost the abilbity to stream from the AE to my G68j- I ignored as I was off doing other projects; Back on it now as I prepare for another major project.

To test for the problem, I now am connected directly from my Intel Mac to the G68 inputs - no sounds period. It's behaving as if there a format issue as the G68 doesn't respond at all; I've tried 3 different cables; re-routed from the optical input (O3) to the coax (D11) (using a CO2 converter out of the mac) - still nothing; Swapped inputs realtime to the DVD player and that works fine, so it's like the mac output is a format not recognized;

In the mac preferences, it acknowledges the digital cable and properly switches to digital output (from internal speakers);

Playing via iTunes, it should be simply a pcm digital out on the mini-optical right; I'm sure it's some stupid thing I'm not setting... but never had this problem before...

any ideas are welcome...

thanks
ken