I thought you guys were goofy when the HISS thing first got mentioned.

I had my 950 before anyone mentioned this and knew I never heard this HISS.

I checked it out for myself just to be double sure what I thought.... No HISS, only the ear to tweeter hiss you'd expect.

But.... one day I was sitting there, and hit mute, and noticed the HISS from several feet away!? Dang! I KNOW that wasn't there before?? So what's diff. now? Nothing that I can think of?

In normal listening where I'm ~9' from the speakers I can't hear either HISS, so I'm just gonna except that the prob. happens sometimes, but since you guys are still talking about it, I'll experiment some more to hear when it happens for me, and when it doesn't.

For the record I use Audiosource AMP 7t's (200W per chan. digital amps).

I'm sure that the prob is in the 950, and NOT in anyone's amps though.

My set up is very simple...
I only have three audio inputs plugged into the 950. All three are optical cables from my...
-Pannie RP-56 DVD player
-DishNetwork 6000 Sat /over-the-air rec.
-and PS2

The probs. not there either. I'm sure it's the 950.

I never have the volume at -80 so I've never tested the -80 to -79 effect where the HISS kicks in for people. My 950's pretty much never set lower than -35-ish since that's pretty quiet with my amp and speakers.

The digital amps are VERY precise. No hiss being masked there.

My speakers are Newform Research. The 45" ribbons have no problem letting ANY hiss through, so there's nothing being masked on the output past the 950 in the chain.

I don't use a power conditioner, but I have a dedicated 20 amp line feeding my system (using thicker guage wire than the rest of the house for it's inherent noise supression), so there's no house induced noise getting in either.

I'm thinking this MUST be in all 950's.

tI really seems like a design flaw in the processing. I think many other people like myself did what I did and never noticed that the HISS is there -at times, 'cuz at normal listening disances it's not audible, or just slightly at most.