Follow up...I tried a bunch of other cd's and did not have this problem. I suppose some cd's contain an extra data stream that wasn't supposed to be "seen", and the Outlaw is reading it as a surround sound instruction. Still, I hope a future firmware upgrade will address this issue. As for the rest of my 970, I am absolutely thrilled. I just hope the Lord of Rings and Star Wars sagas I will be playing my entire Christmas weekend do not expose any bugs. Merry Christmas y'all.