i bet you the power connector in the v3 is having issues. i remembered hearing about this problem and after some digging found it. the split pin inside the v3 power port most likely needs to be separated just a touch. the v3 loses dc power and the deck actually goes into pause when it loses the digital signal. thus there's no gap, just missing music.
it took some digging to find, but check out this discussion from the sonicsense board
here