Vince,

Glad to hear the XA2 arrived safely. The extra aluminum plates Toshiba put on its chassis surely makes it feel a lot more solid then the 3rd generation units.

BTW, wanted to mention that when you first power on the XA2 don't immediately expect a lock to the SPDIF outputs. The Toshiba has to boot for 20 or 30 seconds before it turns up its clocks and at that point my board will lock onto that and you should see a lock on the SPDIF inputs on the Meridian. Before it is playing anything the Toshbia defaults to 48kHz.

Have fun,

Shawn

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