It's irritating, though, Aud, that SD memory is still substantially more expensive than compact flash, and whereas compact flash is going to be available soon in a 1 gigabyte card, the max on SD I have found is 256MB, which is not that much when you are using wav files. (By the way, I WAS talking earlier about very cheap universal SD card readers/writers for the transmission of audio files in wav or other formats that are ultimately re-encodable as MP3Pro, not about the Technics or MIDI data transfer system. Of course, you don't need to bother with the SD card if you use a direct USB hook-up.) Leo.

SD is available in 512 MB now for around $140 and the 1G should be out this year. Cheapest 512 MB compact flash would be around $95 in comparison now, but might be slower. Compact flash has been available in 1G for a while (I have 2 of them) the max cf now is 6G at around $5000

The Panasonic reader is needed to put audio on the SD card to play back in the 7000 or 2600, virtually any reader will do for technics and midi files. The 7000 and 2600 don't use wave files, a 128 card can hold around 45-50 typical songs in audio format high quality, some more if you use the normal compression for keyboard playback.

Thanks for that information. The cut-price dealers in the Channel Islands that we have contacted aren't yet selling them, but I'll harass them now I know. There is a quantum price leap over the 256MB, howwever, so it'll probaby be a while before the unit cost becomes comparable. Leo.