Glitches in sound--DISH or just compression?

[Porschefan]

Newbie here with not much experience to discern what is a "problem" and what is just par for the course in HD.

I used to have 2 VIP 612 receivers that had VERY bad glitching on recordings--especially Lakers games. DISH replaced them with 622's and that seemed to help. (There's another thread here about all THAT.)

Lately I've noticed that while there isn't much (if any) of picture-stutter, pixellation, and that kind of thing, there IS something less than perfect with audio. Just minor little tiny skips, like an old phonograph record where the needle JUST skips a bit. It's tolerable with stuff like basketball games, but with music--NO WAY. I've noticed it most when watching a band play on Letterman or the Late Night Craig Ferguson show.

Then last week I recorded a broadcast of Neil Young's concert at the Ryman auditorium in Nashville. We listened to that the other night and it was perfect--no glitches at all.

So I'm thinking that perhaps it might be a compression (or OVER-compression) issue with the TV signal itself? Maybe the network (HD Theater or HD Net ?? -- whichever carries the Palladia shows) knows that it can't mess up a concert or nobody will listen to them and the run-of-the-mill network broadcasts just don't care?

Is this a plausible theory? Or is something wrong with the glitchy recordings.

All sound is going through an A/V receiver with HDMI inputs and output.

TIA for any pointers.

Stephen Porter
Los Angeles, CA

[highdefjeff]

Check your signal integrity.

[gwhoughton]

I have heard of and personally experienced some issues with a slight sound "delay" on some stations @ some times, but I think that is the most significant audio problem that I have encountered...

Side note: Pick up that Neil Young DVD of the concert you just mentioned. It is excellent! Also, if you have a blu-ray, pick up the Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds Live from the Radio City Music Hall DVD... THAT sound (from the blu-ray version) will BLOW YOU AWAY!