Stopping audio from sleeping as I'm missing system sounds?

I tried posting this before but got no responses, so I'm trying again as this is VERY annoying.
I'm using the optical sound output from my iMac 2011 into a receiver, and am having problems with audio sleeping.
What is clearly happening is that the audio is going to sleep after 30 seconds if no sounds are played. (I can hear a pop from the speakers when the sleep occurs.)
When audio is awoken, the first second or so of the sound gets missed. Now, when that is a system sound, e.g. mail send or arrival, they get missed completely!
I have tried Antipop which sort of works but there must be a better solution to this problem.

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