Reply to Quant/Sync working different on S4?

Okay, so this is driving me nuts:

In Ean's "AeroDynamic" video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5IfY1IBbh4

...he has the Daft Punk track (deck B) set to "Sync" and is able to beat juggle the hot cues (deck is not playing) off of the beat and/or rapidly. On my S4, I'm not able to do this with Quant turned either on or off.

More info:

Deck A (Planet Rock)
Master
Playing

Deck B (AeroDynamic)
Sync ON
Quant OFF
Not playing

With Sync ON and Quant OFF, I'm not able to quickly press the hot cues. It's like it's trying to quantize them to the beat even though Quant is OFF. If I press play on deck B, I'm able to beat juggle the hot cues off beat/rapidly as expected.

In the video, Ean clearly has Sync turned ON and is able to activate the hot cues at any time. I can only achieve this by turning Sync OFF on deck B.

Am I missing something?

UPDATE: Looking at the mp3s Ean provided, the hot cues don't appear to be exactly on the beat grids (?). I disabled auto-beat gridding and re-added them to the collection just to be sure. They definitely appear to be slightly off.