Well I’ve just been living with this problem since last year and decided to have a second look at the issue.
I have a STR-DN1080 which is 2 years old and a pretty modern AVR in terms of support for Atmos, DD+, 7.2 and so forth. Sony patched the firmware in October of 2020 and I’m running that version.
I’m still getting the audio pops when I skip forward on Atmos encoded content and when I ‘stop’.
I’ve set Keep Audio Device alive to ‘Always’ and that hasn’t had any impact.
Just as a refresh, I have a 5.1 speaker setup and the AVR is configured to 5.1 speakers, Pass through is enabled and all the various AVR features are enabled (supports TrueHD, E-AC3, etc…).
Other settings are:
- settings->system->audio->number of channels is 7.1
- settings->system->audio->output configuration is best match
- settings->player->video->adjust display refresh rate is start/stop
As per something I read here, I have observed that if I change output configuration to ‘Fixed’ the pops go away. But my understanding is that means I’m probably getting some resampling happening and that this is compromising audio quality?