Hello
I have a PM8005 and SA8005 connected to Dali Opticon 1 speakers and so far the sound quality is amazing. However on some of my CD's I have encountered the odd flaws in recording and while flaws like this is to be expected from some music I am very worried if this will do damage to speakers. Flaws in recordings include distortion, pops and high pitched ringing or high pitched sounding distortion.
For example on one CD I was listening to last night it has many different instruments playing at the same time and gets pretty congested, however the speakers are so good it seems to somehow seperate nearly all of it. During one of the tracks the sound engineer either missed this part or it was probably an issue with the recording equipment they used because all of a sudden there was a painful ear piercing high pitched sound that came out of left speaker that went on for about half a second. I then turned off source direct on amp and set balance to have sound only come out of left speaker and I replayed track and when it got to the same part of track I got the same ear piercing sound on very same part of track which confirms it was from the CD. Volume was set at 8 as the music is mastered loud so volume is already loud at that level.
Considering that distortion was painful to listen to has me worried it could be overloading or damaging the tweeter. Because I am worrying I am no longer enjoying music. This is the first time I have got hifi equipment this expensive so I am very paranoid any damage could be occuring.
Can speakers like Opticon 1 handle loudly mastered demanding music and recorded distortion or will they get damaged? Are the tweeters being overdriven and possibly overheat? I really want to put my mind at ease and get back to enjoying music.
I have a PM8005 and SA8005 connected to Dali Opticon 1 speakers and so far the sound quality is amazing. However on some of my CD's I have encountered the odd flaws in recording and while flaws like this is to be expected from some music I am very worried if this will do damage to speakers. Flaws in recordings include distortion, pops and high pitched ringing or high pitched sounding distortion.
For example on one CD I was listening to last night it has many different instruments playing at the same time and gets pretty congested, however the speakers are so good it seems to somehow seperate nearly all of it. During one of the tracks the sound engineer either missed this part or it was probably an issue with the recording equipment they used because all of a sudden there was a painful ear piercing high pitched sound that came out of left speaker that went on for about half a second. I then turned off source direct on amp and set balance to have sound only come out of left speaker and I replayed track and when it got to the same part of track I got the same ear piercing sound on very same part of track which confirms it was from the CD. Volume was set at 8 as the music is mastered loud so volume is already loud at that level.
Considering that distortion was painful to listen to has me worried it could be overloading or damaging the tweeter. Because I am worrying I am no longer enjoying music. This is the first time I have got hifi equipment this expensive so I am very paranoid any damage could be occuring.
Can speakers like Opticon 1 handle loudly mastered demanding music and recorded distortion or will they get damaged? Are the tweeters being overdriven and possibly overheat? I really want to put my mind at ease and get back to enjoying music.