[higrow]

hdmi works too and has a much better audio quality than the headphone jacket. There are occasional interferences but this could also be caused by shairport or the network connection ( my guess is network ).

[davestheraves]

Better over hardwire than WiFi? Or just the how the Pi handles the info on-board?

[higrow]

sorry for the confusion, the problems were load related as a process in the bg was running wild. Runs pretty smooth over both ethernet & wlan now.