Solved Audio drop outs while streaming 5.1 audio

I was living in Minix bliss land on firmware 007 with Kodi 15.2 Isengard (HDMI to TV) until firmware 008 was released and all of a sardine I was being plagued with the split second audio drops when streaming 5.1 audio, annoying enough to start googling for answers, I was surprised to see it was quite a hot topic. As a side note the VPN logo would not illuminate green when connected which was annoying too but something I could live with.
Woohoo Kodi 16.1 Jarvis is released, well as it turns out...

Solved Audio drop outs while streaming 5.1 audio