Overly sensitive tweeter/midrange
I have Sonus Faber Amati Traditions. They sound great on 85% of music. The other 15%, I swear I hear some type of ugly noise in the transients. Of course, I can't explain it better than that, and my wife can't hear it at all. It sounds like a pop or a click you might expect from a broken driver, but much more subtle. I've tried to determine if it's one speaker or both. I can really only hear it on one speaker, but who knows. Is this something anyone else has dealt with that might remotely know what I'm talking about? I don't think it's just the recordings.
You know, switch seating positions with your wife. :D Seriously though, I’ve had untreated rooms create a kind of distortion effect above a certain listening level. If you two are sitting in the exact same place while evaluating it may be an acoustic phenomenon. Otherwise, as recommended above. Try swapping speaker cables to test if it’s an upstream problem. Oddly enough, if your drivers are rubbing thew would show up on an impedance plot. Dayton DATS V3 might show you exactly where the problem is. that may be too geeky for you, but I find it indispensable. A driver rubbing will show up as an irregularity in the impedance chart, though it may only happen at a level too high for it to pick up. |
If it happens randomly and only in one speakers try flipping all cables from left to right. If the issue moves with the cables to another speaker start eliminating potential culprits one by one by switching back the interconnects first then speaker cables. |
