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Second is probably not the standard "no audio" problem, since it's not random, but happens every time I listen to a CD, for which I use an optical connection assigned to the "CD" input. Whenever I start a new CD, I have no sound until the track has played for one second or so. It's annoying because I always miss that first second, so I now routinely start the CD with the volume down, hit the button to start the track over once the 970 has picked up the digital signal, then turn the volume back up.
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I had the same issue with the first second of audio from CD's over an optical connection.
are both likely instances if signal acquisition delay - something that affects all surround processors and receivers to varying degrees when identifying the input format if a digital signal. Palmer is right that turning auto polling off will certainly help with this issue, but a delay of up to a second even without auto polling in the mix is not unheard of - the 990 has around 1/2 second of delay, and the 950 had 1.5 seconds or a bit more delay. Definitely try turning off auto polling on any sources for which you don't need it (and you'd really only need it for a source where the digital input was sometimes inactive and you needed to fall back on analog, such as older digital cable boxes), but even after that you may still notice some delay from time to time.
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