One quirk about stereo bypass: the 950 does not consider it to be the same as a processing mode, so it is not possible to leave an input defaulted to stereo bypass. As a result, the next time that you select that input (including the next time that it powers up), it will use the default processing mode (which in your case is 5 Stereo).

When I was using the 950's remote, I had a pair of macros assigned to M3 and M4 that issued the command to switch to stereo bypass and 5.1 channel input respectively. That way I could select "DVD" and hit "M4" to go to the 5.1 analog input for DVD-Audio discs, or select "CD" and hit "M3" to use the analog inputs in stereo bypass. It's not a perfect fix, but it was as simple an approach as I could make it.

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