I haven't rewired the TV to get the sound directly yet, but here's what I observed today. When I went to Pandora, a song was playing with audio. But the next song, no audio. I scrolled through my 8 stations about 5 times, trying a song each time. 3 times I got sound (out of 40 tries), but it kicked in about 7 seconds into the song, never at the very beginning. The song then skipped ahead to the end (known issue), but the next song never had audio. So I am getting sound through the receiver, but all looks so random. Some "songs" played all the way through, but with no audio.