I've never pressed my ear to my 950 and listened, but I've had my head within inches of it (doing speaker wiring with the amps off and the 950 on) and never heard anything. I'd call it completely silent. As for updates, there's nothing newer than what you already have (the DTS-ES fix went in around mid-March 2003, and that's the latest change).

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