Hello,
I was enjoying a good listening session at Saturday night. During the track 3 on Pink Floyd - The Wall, disc 1, I heard a "pop", like an electric click, sound from left speaker and after that the sound from the panel was completely distorted, even on very small volume.
The volume lever was a bit more than 12 o'clock, and the sound level was quite low in the moment when this happened. I mean, there are scenes with much more decibels in that cd than the point where this happened.
First I unplugged the power cable for a couple of seconds but it didn't help. The panel still was completely distorted. Then I powered off the amp, unplugged the speaker from mains, removed the speaker cable from both ends and then plugged everything back on and the problem disappeared. It didn't happen again, even I used the same volume level again.
What do you think was the problem? Does the speaker have some kind of over-drive protection? Or do you think the problem was in the amp (which would be a bit strange, as there was still the distorted noise coming from left speaker and right speaker didn't have any issues)? It was not a crazy party volume, just normal, enjoyable listeling volume.
My system:
Cambridge Audio 840C cd player
QED Qunex 3 RCA
Electrocompaniet ECI-3 integrated amp (6 months old)
Audioquest type-4
ML Source (a bit more than year old).
The specs of the amp:
Maximum peak current > 60 A
8 Ohm 2 x 70 W
4 Ohm 2 x 120 W
2 Ohm 2 x 160 W
I would appreciate your comments and thoughts on this, as this really scared me - I thought I'd blown up the speaker. I would like to know what caused this.
Regards,
Mikko
I was enjoying a good listening session at Saturday night. During the track 3 on Pink Floyd - The Wall, disc 1, I heard a "pop", like an electric click, sound from left speaker and after that the sound from the panel was completely distorted, even on very small volume.
The volume lever was a bit more than 12 o'clock, and the sound level was quite low in the moment when this happened. I mean, there are scenes with much more decibels in that cd than the point where this happened.
First I unplugged the power cable for a couple of seconds but it didn't help. The panel still was completely distorted. Then I powered off the amp, unplugged the speaker from mains, removed the speaker cable from both ends and then plugged everything back on and the problem disappeared. It didn't happen again, even I used the same volume level again.
What do you think was the problem? Does the speaker have some kind of over-drive protection? Or do you think the problem was in the amp (which would be a bit strange, as there was still the distorted noise coming from left speaker and right speaker didn't have any issues)? It was not a crazy party volume, just normal, enjoyable listeling volume.
My system:
Cambridge Audio 840C cd player
QED Qunex 3 RCA
Electrocompaniet ECI-3 integrated amp (6 months old)
Audioquest type-4
ML Source (a bit more than year old).
The specs of the amp:
Maximum peak current > 60 A
8 Ohm 2 x 70 W
4 Ohm 2 x 120 W
2 Ohm 2 x 160 W
I would appreciate your comments and thoughts on this, as this really scared me - I thought I'd blown up the speaker. I would like to know what caused this.
Regards,
Mikko