Hmm...
Well... I've done some limited testing, but I'm getting even stranger results than I thought. Nothing earth shattering, but odd nevertheless.
Per your suggestion, MDS, I looked at disabling the 'Auto' bistream identifying option, however I cannot disable the 'Auto' input feature when using a digital input, as the only other two options (DTS and Analog) will not produce anything, which I suppose makes sense. As such, unless I hook up some analog in from the DVDs stereo analog out to the receiver's DVD analog in (which I have not done as of yet), I don't think I can avoid the 'Auto' identify feature.
Testing with a few CDs, I noticed this behavior only on a few songs, but not all of them. Even stranger, it had nothing to do with the track location on the disc, the tracks where I could reproduce the problem were everywhere from the 3rd of 10 songs to the 11th of 15, very odd. This behavior was present when listening via coaxial digital in and using some of the processing (PLIIx, 7 ch. stereo, etc.). When listening via multichannel inputs, I was not able to reproduce the problem using CDs. Its almost as if the problem tracks don't contain some sort of flag that the non-problematic ones do.
What's also strange is the fact that I'm experiencing this problem using the multichannel inputs listening to Steely Dan's 'Gaucho', but only on the first track, 'Babylon Sisters'. Other tracks on the same DVD-A (Hey Nineteen, My Rival, etc.) don't exhibit this behavior. I'll have to see if I get the same problem w/other DVD-As or SACDs.
So to recap:
- using CDs w/MC inputs , no problem. Using digital input, intermittently experienced on certain tracks.
- using DVD-A w/MC inputs, problem experienced on just one track at the beginning of the disc.
More testing to follow, but I just wanted to update this in case anyone else experienced the problem as well. Any other feedback on this is welcome also... -TD