AJ- We used the digital input exclusively.

As far as hiss... It's tricky because I didn't do a direct comparison. Here's the dope: I know the 950 *in my system* hisses more than the Sony TA-E9000ES it replaced. I can hear hiss out to 4 ft from my rear center, and out to 2 ft on every other speaker. The Sony? Ear to the tweeter is the only way I can hear it.

OK, so in Jim's system, I only checked the Anthem. (I *should* have brought the stupid check list I had up above, oh well...). From Jim's mains, I could hear the Anthem hiss to about 1 ft. I did not check the 950. The other caveat is, for whetever reason, Jim's unit also hissed "differently" in my system. Pretty much across the board, it was about 2 ft, even the rear center. But the replacement unit Outlaw sent me to make sure I didn't have a faulty unit, acted the exact same way mine did. Go figure.