No, I think you are right about the delay. I have estimated it in the past at 800-1200ms, about your estimate. But I am not seeing anything close to that now. Nothing on MP3 and just barely of notice with AAC. I don't have an iPod, so I play back the iPod tests with VLC on my PC. I have not tried any of the audiocopy profiles yet. I don't use them because they make the files so big.