It sounds to me as if the writer was recapping the two issues that were a part of the 950's past: the noise issue (resolved MONTHS ago) and the DTS-ES bass issue (resolved a few months ago.)

I haven't seen the issue (and probably won't since I don't find Widescreen Review particularly useful most of the time) but if they said that two units "failed" because of these problems, I wonder if that really is a fair way to characterize the situations.