I was reading through this forum and others at work during lunch, and something struck me as odd. If you set the 970/990 to the appropriate input, why would there be a delay in signal acquisition? Maybe I got an excellent receiver some years back, but if I select CD as an example, and push play on the remote for the cd player there is no measurable delay that I can hear. The track timer comes up on the cd player and no sound is "delayed" or missing.

The recent special on the outlaws "virtual receiver" with the 7125 and the 970 (plus the tax holiday in MA) looks like a perfect event to make my jump to separates. However, I was wondering why an AV processor, that costs nearly as much as the reciever would have a delay when the reciever does not. Perhaps I am missing something here?

Thanks.