Wonder if anyone else has had this problem? I plugged my Rotel CD player into the AVR X4000 and tried to play a CD in the following modes: Stereo, Direct, Pure Direct and NEO Stereo and the audio will not play. I hold the music button down on the remote and switch to any other multi-channel mode and the CD plays perfectly through my GoldenEars Triton III speakers Did I forget to do something when I set up the AVR??? Thanks to all responding members.