Hi there
I'm a new member of these forums, and I was hoping to get some views on a strange issue. Apologies for the long email.
I auditioned the Marantz PM/CD6005 the other day with four sets of speakers - Q300, Zensor 3 & 5 and the Monitor BX5. I brouhgt along my own CDs to test, including one of my favourites, the Carlos Kleiber recording of Beethoven's Fifth. I stuck it in with the two standmounters for an A/B test and both me and the sales guy were immediately surprised to hear the speakers clicking when the first, famous loud choppy chords come on from the first movement - you know, the "da-da-da-daaa".
So we tried the other connected speakers, and yep, same clicking. But this time out of the other side. Then we swapped to the floorstanders, and again, the same clicking. It didn't repeat as the music went on, but every time we skipped back, without fail there was a click at the end of those chords.
We tried another CD of another recording, and again the clicking, in the same place with all the speakers but not necessarily coming out the same side each time. No other piece of music I tried - jazz, rock, metal, folk, electronic and dance had the issue.
I brought the CDs home and played them on my Mac book internal speakers and the Bose lifestyle speakers I have attached to my TV. Same clicking. So I bought another copy of the same CD, just played it through the Mac book, and again, same clicking in the same, and only in that, place.
Does anyone have any ideas about what might be causing this, and how I can avoid it? Does it sound like a CD issue (although it occurs to two different versions of the same recording, and three different recordings of the same piece) or does it sound like its showing a weakness in the amp or speakers? It's a moment of extreme contrast between quiet and soft - with short, loud choppy sounds being played. Would that be the reason?
Any help would be appreciated because it is a favourite piece and I am thinking of buying a hifi specifically to enjoy recordings like this.
I'm a new member of these forums, and I was hoping to get some views on a strange issue. Apologies for the long email.
I auditioned the Marantz PM/CD6005 the other day with four sets of speakers - Q300, Zensor 3 & 5 and the Monitor BX5. I brouhgt along my own CDs to test, including one of my favourites, the Carlos Kleiber recording of Beethoven's Fifth. I stuck it in with the two standmounters for an A/B test and both me and the sales guy were immediately surprised to hear the speakers clicking when the first, famous loud choppy chords come on from the first movement - you know, the "da-da-da-daaa".
So we tried the other connected speakers, and yep, same clicking. But this time out of the other side. Then we swapped to the floorstanders, and again, the same clicking. It didn't repeat as the music went on, but every time we skipped back, without fail there was a click at the end of those chords.
We tried another CD of another recording, and again the clicking, in the same place with all the speakers but not necessarily coming out the same side each time. No other piece of music I tried - jazz, rock, metal, folk, electronic and dance had the issue.
I brought the CDs home and played them on my Mac book internal speakers and the Bose lifestyle speakers I have attached to my TV. Same clicking. So I bought another copy of the same CD, just played it through the Mac book, and again, same clicking in the same, and only in that, place.
Does anyone have any ideas about what might be causing this, and how I can avoid it? Does it sound like a CD issue (although it occurs to two different versions of the same recording, and three different recordings of the same piece) or does it sound like its showing a weakness in the amp or speakers? It's a moment of extreme contrast between quiet and soft - with short, loud choppy sounds being played. Would that be the reason?
Any help would be appreciated because it is a favourite piece and I am thinking of buying a hifi specifically to enjoy recordings like this.