[S. Parks]

my cpu usage is doing the same as yours, at the moment the screen fade begins I from 2% to 60% then a quick spike to 90 to 96% as the audio drop out occurs. I've been through all the suggested fixes in the manual from a to z, with only minor improvement to the audio drop outs. I've suffered through one such problem before after an upgrade, an accellerating graphics problem. It took nearly a month for the forum members to zero in on the problem. My shuttle system is one that I built myself, but I understand your system came from MTU. I migth add that I have two systems, the other is a Sony laptop, and I have the some problems on it after applying all the fixes. I trust the MTU folks are giving this issue consideration, though I haven't heard anyone weigh in and say if they've been able to recreate the problem on one of their systems. It would be different if it played all songs this way, but that is not the case.