I got the DVD and played it the other night. It definitely gave my system a nice workout, but I'm a little concerned it did a little too much of a workout. I heard a lot of clipping going on during the explosions. I had my volume up to 47 and that's running through just a Model 1050 that's output to an ICBM, then into a Model 750 amp, and finally out to some Paradigm Reference Series speakers (fronts being Studio 100 and rears being Studio 20. Plus a sub and center)
I'll admit, I've foolishly had my DVD player in D-PCM instead of Dolby Digital previous to this, until a month or two ago. But I've never had a clipping problem before,even during the two months I was in 5.1. It seemed to only be my front right most of the time, during the explosions, and every so often I could hear the left rear clipping as well. Any ideas as to what the problem might be? The speakers should easily have been able to handle the power delivered without maxing them out.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
EDIT: OK, nevermind about the clipping issue. I just checked (by taking the covers off my speakers) and it looks like the a few of the speakers in the right speaker have become unglued. Now, I don't know if this is an indication of a blown speaker or not, but it explains why the clipping sound occurred. The Studio 100 speaker has a tweeter, mid, bass and sub. My left speaker sub had been unglued for quite some time and I was meaning to talk to the sales place about it coming unglued. I know I have not sent anything too powerful to the speaker and the speaker's sub frequencies should be handled by my ICBM setting (of 40Hz for my front left/right.) I was holding off on the left speaker, as it was not producing any bad noise, but now the the right bass speaker has come unglued, it is producing that clipping noise and may need to be remedied soon.
I'll go to the dealer and find out what can be done, and hopefully at minimum cost.
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