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From: jimt@felix.UUCP (James Tringali)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Quality capacitor upgrades - also CD strangeness
Message-ID: <938@felix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 18:53:29 EST
Article-I.D.: felix.938
Posted: Fri Mar  7 18:53:29 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Mar-86 05:11:53 EST
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In article <571@kontron.UUCP> brad@kontron.UUCP (Brad Yearwood) writes:

>Also, when playing CD's (I've tried 3 different players), I often get
>ugly ticks or splatters in the right speaker when listening to passages in
>classical music in which the string basses 
>(or perhaps cellos) are particularly
>active.  I don't recall hearing anything comparable on rock or other types
>of music.  It happens on a number of different classical recordings.  Is it
>likely to be a defective amp channel or speaker, 
>a preamp overloading problem,
>common recording problems, or what?

Recently, I experienced similar symptoms  while listening to
CD  media  classical  music.    I  swapped  speakers and the
tainted sound followed the speaker.  I  assumed some tweeter
damage had been done so I ordered another part.  Sure enough
one week later the suspect tweeter  blew out  completely.  I
am still at a  loss as  to the  exact cause  of the failure.
Just before I  added the  CD player  to my  system I changed
residences.  Does  anyone know  if rough  handling can cause
tweeter  damage?    Or  could  this  be a  case of amplifier
clipping presenting a deadly DC component to the tweeter?  

Any suggestions would be  appreciated as  I want  to avoid a
repeat of this incident.  

					       J. James Tringali
					{decvax,ucbvax}!trwrb!felix!jimt
					  FileNet Corp. Costa Mesa, CA.

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