Two Questions

[Lttlwing16]

In the interest of making sure my aside didn't misdirect you, my issue was not with the IFI power supply itself. AFAIK it meets its specs. 

My issue was that the lead from the power supply terminates in a barrel plug. To power a Pi, you have to use their short adapter cable which has a barrel receptacle at one end and a microUSB plug at the other. It was the barrel plug-to-barrel receptacle connection which I found to be unreliable, It was susceptible to noisy or even intermittent connection if the cable were subject to movement. That's unacceptable in my book.

Was this a one-off problem or is it endemic? Dunno but I thought it worth mentioning.

Like I said, I could have clipped off the two connectors and soldered the remaining cable segments together, but I haven't bothered with it because I found the IFI power supply itself to be unnecessary.

Regards,
Kent

Nope, not at all. I knew what you meant, and even more so now. It had no bearing on my decision to get the Nirvana. 

My moOde player stays tucked away in the media cabinet. The only time it moves is when I move it to do something with it. The barrel connector was fine. The new Nirvana SMPS comes with a barrel connector as well, but also has a USB 5v/2.85a output which I'll use to avoid the barrel connector, well, just because less points of failure. 

I'm leary if the new power supply will correct the issue, but the folks at Allo, simply replied "we will look into your issue"..which I took to mean you're on your own. We shall see! 

David