Originally Posted By AvFan
Originally Posted By rdgrimes
The Oppo is your only source that sends out HDMI lossless audio bitstreamed. (ATV sends LPCM)
I'm pretty sure that the Outlaw is the problem. As a test, set the Oppo to output LPCM.


Well that is a brilliant suggestion and it worked! No more snapping. Thanks!

So I believe this means the OPPO is decoding the audio and then the 976 takes care of all the delay, channel levels etc. or do those parameters have to be set in the OPPO? It also begs the questions: 1) Why the 976 can't handle bitstream audio? and 2) Does the OPPO decode better than the 976 or vise versa?

Thanks again!


The Oppos speaker setup options only effect the analog outputs.
In most cases it doesn't matter where the decoding is done, although it may impact the 976's DSP modes in some way. In a perfect world the 976 should be treating LPCM input more or less the same as bitstream.