Jed,

I felt the same way about the 950 when I first listened to music through it. However over time with some patient tuning, speaker positioning it does sound much better. I recently moved from a Pioneer 525 dvd player to a Denon 2900, and I thing the sound is much improved. There is a difference in bypass v/s using the 950's onboard DAC, but not as much as I experienced with the Pioneer.

But I digress from the original reason for starting the thread.

Thanks all for you help.

Regards,
Vik