The 950 isn't alone in that area.

Will, - I think your right with that remark. I went back and looked at the posts on the Sunfire CG amps above to see what gear was listed used in conjunction with the cinema grand that had interactions.

In order of post listed, here’s what the posters detailed:

Meridian 561 processor/bohedner graebner 820’s, 420’s 220. Denon DVD
Martin Logans
Theta Casablanca with Cardas cabling.
Lexicon DC-1 processor/ Paradigam Studio 110 Ref 450 and Titans.

Not bad gear. Is it just me or does the window of opportunity increase proportionally for ‘interactions’ to occur throughout an entire system as it enters the realm of ‘higher end’ more complex components with higher performance level capabilities?

Until I got into separates and HD, I just don’t remember having these many issues and delicate balances involved which could go out of whack every time you changed/added a new piece.

It has its own rewards however, (for a newbie) one minute I want to scream, (over the next glitch), the next minute I feel like I won the ribbon when I sort out an issue myself. A satisfying feeling of something I just accomplished.

My latest glitch fix…which I’m very proud of, involved a (usually knife thin red) line running vertically down the extreme right edge of my Sony 60” LCD screen. It was a known ‘interaction’ with a combo of the GWI LCD and the DTC100 HD receiver using an RCA RGB to component adapter.

The day I purchased my display the storefront admitted the issue when I asked them, and I let them know that according to the forums you could fix it by adjusting raster, they requested I fax the info. for another client they had whom they were trying to service. Unfortunately I found that raster could not entirely rid the screen of this problem. And when talking to my storefront a few weeks later they had found the same (reduction of line but still there or simply moved to the other side) I went back to surfing 3 forums no one had a ‘fix’ listed for this issue. So I ended up living with it. A few nights ago I ‘found’ the fix just playing around when I put my old DTC100 back on line after returning a demo of another HD receiver. It simply involves changing the retrace timing to get rid of it.

I’m beginning to feel….especially as (just me) have lots to learn. Like living around my AV is life in an ongoing detective novel.