Cythreill
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A week ago, I received my Audioengine A5+'s, and while I'm very pleased with them 99.9% of them of the time, I have a small problem with them.
When playing certain types of songs at an especially high volume, the sound becomes distorted. The distortion is a sort of crackling noise, that seems to affect all frequencies of sound, not just vocals/bass/etc. I've only noticed this with hip-hop tracks, just now I had DMX's 'Get It On The Floor' at an especially high volume and I could notice the crackling noise.
It's important to note I've not noticed this with other genres, house, jazz, etc. I just played some house and jazz and couldn't make out any distortion at the same sort of volume that I require to force the distortion for many hip-hop songs.
My Audioengine A5+'s are plugged into the rear panel of my Creative X-FI Titanium. I play my music from Spotify/Winamp. I keep the volume of the Spotify/Windows at 100%, usually.
I'm interested as to why this is happening, and what I'm able to do to eliminate the distortion.
I have two related questions;
1) Does whatever is causing the distortion have any capacity to damage my speakers? I'd test the problem some more but it feels like I'm damaging my speakers whenever I induce the distortion.
2) My speakers seem to play the lowest frequencies at a very soft and very low volume; e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1VGytzXus Is this just a side-effect of having a non-high end 2.0 setup? I'm sure any 2.1 setup could play those frequencies at a much higher volume.
Thanks :]
When playing certain types of songs at an especially high volume, the sound becomes distorted. The distortion is a sort of crackling noise, that seems to affect all frequencies of sound, not just vocals/bass/etc. I've only noticed this with hip-hop tracks, just now I had DMX's 'Get It On The Floor' at an especially high volume and I could notice the crackling noise.
It's important to note I've not noticed this with other genres, house, jazz, etc. I just played some house and jazz and couldn't make out any distortion at the same sort of volume that I require to force the distortion for many hip-hop songs.
My Audioengine A5+'s are plugged into the rear panel of my Creative X-FI Titanium. I play my music from Spotify/Winamp. I keep the volume of the Spotify/Windows at 100%, usually.
I'm interested as to why this is happening, and what I'm able to do to eliminate the distortion.
I have two related questions;
1) Does whatever is causing the distortion have any capacity to damage my speakers? I'd test the problem some more but it feels like I'm damaging my speakers whenever I induce the distortion.
2) My speakers seem to play the lowest frequencies at a very soft and very low volume; e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1VGytzXus Is this just a side-effect of having a non-high end 2.0 setup? I'm sure any 2.1 setup could play those frequencies at a much higher volume.
Thanks :]