Definitely an improvement with ALAC and WAV - foobar told me the WAV files werent supported, but they seem to play fine. Wont be selling the X in favour of the Shuffle, but its more bearable with female vocal and acoustic - harder thrash soon has the little guy pink-faced and sweating. Just occurred to me that this is the all-conquering Wolfson DAC - I'm afraid Apple didnt spend enough time massaging this particular model. Back into the bin with my RE0s
