Strange audio issue

[Nick_UK]

My SkyHD box is connected to my Yamaha 1500 amp via optical cable, and when it's not decoding DD 5.1 the amp is usually switched to Dolby Neo:6 surround. Every now and again I get a short burst of white noise at quite a low level from the front speakers - it probably lasts less than a second. It's almost like a sigh. Has anyone else noticed this, or is this unique to my setup ?

[JohnWH]

Originally Posted by Nick_UK

My SkyHD box is connected to my Yamaha 1500 amp via optical cable, and when it's not decoding DD 5.1 the amp is usually switched to Dolby Neo:6 surround. Every now and again I get a short burst of white noise at quite a low level from the front speakers - it probably lasts less than a second. It's almost like a sigh. Has anyone else noticed this, or is this unique to my setup ?

Nothing like that, although occasionaly get a loss of all audio output from the Denon when switching channels this requires a flip of selected input on the denon to fix. I think the SkyHD box is still sending audio but it has clearly sent something during the channel swap that has upset the denon e.g. a partial DD frame, although I'd have though the denon was more robust than this.

Cheers,
John.

I have this too. My SkyHD is connected via optical to my Pioneer amp and every now and then I get the white noise for a second from the front speakers as you described. I'm not changing channels at the time.
It's pretty annoying.
No such problems from my DVD optical input so I don't think my speaker setup can be at fault.

[Nick_UK]

I'm glad I'm not alone - I thought I was hearing things