I have been trouble shooting with Steve and it seems that it is more likely interference with other things plugged in than my 950. I unplugged a lamp that was on the same wall as my system and that helped a lot but there was still some popping- just not as much or as loud. Then I isolated my satellite cable and made sure it was not touching anything else in the system. This seemed to help also. Last- I made sure that all my interconnects, ac and speaker wires were as isolated as possible. This has , so far, seemed to work.