This is my first post, so I am a little nervous. I have a 950/770. Got it few weeks back and I put my self on the wait list early January. I have learned a lot from reading all your posts.

I have noticed this hiss that everyone is talking about so I thought I would tell my situation and how I fixed it.

I have a Toshiba 5700 DVD
Sony TV
Bose 501 series 5 (till I get my B&W speakers)

First off, I am new to all of this, so as I upgrade my stuff piece by piece I notice improvements. I am using very cheap interconnects at the moment and I have a slight hiss when my ear is to the tweeter. I had a loud HISS (from at least 5 or 6 feet) and found that my cable TV was the cause. Now the cable TV was not connected to my system at all. It was only connected to my TV. I had a s-video cable to the TV from the DVD player. The DVD player connected to the 950 with analog, optical, and digital connections. Somehow, even with the DVD player OFF and the source on the 950 NOT selected to DVD, I would get a loud HISS. I figured out the bad link was that s-video cable. Once I unplugged it from my DVD player (breaking the link to the TV which is connected to the cable), the HISS turned into a hiss. I would imagine that I can reduce it even more with better interconnects than I am using now.

I should also note that with the 950 turned off and the 770 on, I do get a slight hiss but only hear it when my ear is up to the tweeter.

I simply disconnect the Cable TV from the TV when I watch movies so I don’t get that nasty HISS. So I hope this helps someone. Like I said, I am new to all this audio stuff and hope I did not insult anybodies intelligence.