Okay, until the Outlaws figure out how to do what Daryl says his Yamaha does, could there be a bit of the next firmware upgrade that sets PCM as a default for all incoming digital information until the 990 determines that the format is something else, then switches accordingly? If there has to be "unpleasant sounding gibberish" for a second I'd rather it were at the beginning of material in which the first few seconds are less important for the appreciation of the overall work than they are for a lot of music. I can't recall any piece of video or film in which the first second or so of the audio made much difference, though others have probably had much wider experience in this area. (Well, maybe the beginning of "2001" - but that was Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra", which proves my point. And anyway a glitch at the start of a pianissimo low C isn't very conspicuous.)