Problem with digital audio

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Equipment:
Vincent SV-388 Surround Amplifier (http://www.vincent-tac.de)
JVC XV-N55SL DVD player (http://www.jvc.com)
Problem:
There are a few (or just two) aspects to, what I think is, the same problem.
First of all when I listen to audio CDs that have a negative count in the end of each song at the beginning of a new one, the amplifier goes on "mute". This always happens at -00:01 and only when I use Digital out (coaxial or toslink). Surprisingly some CDs do work with out this problem, they seem to start just before -00:01 and therefore escape the mute problem. This is a problem because the amplifier takes about two seconds to recover from mute, so I tend to miss the first 1-1.5 seconds of each song. As you can imagine this is quite irritating.
Number two: The amplifier is never completely quite. You don't notice this normally but when the other problem kicks in this becomes obvious. When I am watching/listening to regular DVDs and there isn't alot going on (Snow Falling on Cedars - yaaaawn) sometimes this quiet hiss completely turns of and on again (but the amp doesn't go into mute mode though) so the contrast becomes audible.
When I connect the DVD player through stereo-RCA the problem goes away but I think the amplifier handles the PCM signal better quality-wise (that's a word, right?) than the anaolouge one. The DVD player doesn't have 5.1 RCA output nor headphone-output so I cannot check if it's the player (using the electricity here) or the amplifier. The problem is irrelevant of speaker output or headphones, if that helps.
So if anyone has any insights into what this could be I would be glad.
Best regards and thank you
Drengur Ola Thorsteinsson

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Topic - Problem with digital audio - Drengur 07:43:22 12/06/03 (0)

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