Signal acquisition is a necessary evil - it affects any digital processor that receives multiple different audio formats. It's not something that Outlaw can correct. All they can do is try to minimize the effect, which any 950 owners who move to the 990 can tell you has certainly been done to a significant degree. Keep this in mind, as well: a well-behaved source that doesn't break and re-start the bitstream between tracks will allow the 990 (or any other receiver or processor) to only have to acquire the signal once (when the player first starts or the 990 first goes to that input). Players that drop the the signal at the end of a track and re-start the signal at the next track force the receiver or processor to re-analyse the signal each time.