Exactly. It hardly seems useful to take streamed digital content and convert it to analog just to feed it into the 975 which runs it through an ADC and another DAC before sending the output signal to the amplifier.

I know there is zero signal handshake issues with HDMI but, since the S/PDIF input suffers from the same problem, this is clearly a software snafu. I hope Outlaw gets around to fixing it soon.