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You guys keep this up and we're going to scare off all the new users. Poor guy has a legit question. When he comes back to check on the answer, he may never return again.

Yeah, Peter! GEEZ!

Uh, I mean ... *pipes down*

The colonoscopy isn't as bad as you'd think. I had mine at 40 and they put me to sleep using a mild anesthetic, and I was waking up in the recovery soon after without feeling a thing.

As a bonus, I got to keep some high res photos of the inside of my intestines - that's worth the ride.

The worst thing about it for me was drinking that awful laxative solution the night before to clean out my system. That was tough because you have to drink 8 oz. every 10 minutes until it's all gone. It sounds easy, but after about 6 glasses that 10 minutes arrives way too fast. Once you get it all down though - get ready to turn on the fire hose!

Thanks for sharing

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

Those pops are frequently caused by the receiver having to decode enough of the signal to determine if it is DTS or regular PCM (DTS is embedded in a regular CD channel).

Back to the original question... Try this page on AVS forum regarding the popping.



I'm afraid it's not good news as I've seen many reports of this in online forums re: HK (247 and 347) and I have a good friend who went through an absolute nightmare with HK on his 247. They promised that a firmware upgrade would fix this problem (and a few others) and after many failed attempts he finally mailed it to them for analysis. They received it and told him that they'd send him a new one within ~6 weeks. (can you believe this!?)

At this point, I told him to raise a huge stink with them and they revised the time down to 3 weeks, but still, an awful experience to be without your HT hub for so long. They ended up upgrading him to a brand new more expensive AVR as a result, but when he got it, it still doesn't pass 1080p/24 and has a few other bugs he just can't work out.

I realize this is a bit of a downer post, but when I hear about such awful customer service I feel like I have to do my part to spread the word when there are great companies like Axiom out there who really do try to do right by their customers...

It sounds like thus far you've had a better experience, my advice based on my friend's experience is to stay on HK until you get it fully resolved and you're happy. Maybe you can even work an upgrade out of the deal. It sounds like they're working out of their "firmware funk," so hopefully you're timing it right to be near the end of the problems.

Good luck!

Jason

Makes me glad I went with Denon

Makes me glad I went with a non HDMI receiver! I can wait an extra year for them to work out all the kinks on HDMI.

Good point Fred, HK is definitely not alone with the problems (though the customer service experience my buddy went through puts them in a class of their own IMHO)

HDMI seems like a very tricky thing to get exactly right in the newer receivers. Like Jason said, the 3808 seems to have it right, but I remember before I got mine that I was expecting more than a few quirks there as well given that almost every other receiver I'd read about had some sort of HDMI or handshake-related problem.