Thanks Hugo for all your help, Unfortunately David must have been inundated with requests as he gives me the standard "no and no more will be made " response. Oh well it looks like thats the end of a dream ..
As I work for Sony I'll probably end up buying one of our new units as we now do a hdd-mp3 encoder but its the locked down nature of this solution that puts me off, noone seems to value creativity for endusers that Empeg did.
In terms of the spdif out, yes I understand its not a simple mod but then nothing in life thats worthwhile ever seems simple.
Cheers and thanks once again.
Max
I would probably use the CS84 series transmitter chips as I have used them before