Well, it's a good thing my question wasn't too serious as it didn't take long for this topic to go down the tubes. Literally??
To Haoleb I am running digital connections from both of my CD/DVD sources. An optical for my Audio CD's and HDMI for the Bluray. I don't play audio cd's through the Bluray, it's a Sharp and is lousy decoding audio. However, trying to isolate the problem I did play audio cd's using the bluray as a source and still got the 'pops.'
Does anyone know why running digital connections would introduce noise during track breaks??
As to the "pipes" responses, I'm just over the 4th decade of life and have yet to experience the probing.
Sips