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The noise heard, I also happen to live in the same house as Chest Rockwell, is what would best described as if one were to encode an MP3 from a WAV file WAY too fast and there were encoding errors. You know, those pops?
The center is set to small, which if some of you people here were to actually read your owners manuals, you would find that in most cases that means the reciever imposes a 300Hz to 350Hz (depending on the reciever) high-pass crossover on the speaker. So, no frequencies below 300Hz will reach that speaker. It now has the bass response of a telephone. Also, since the speakers happen to be mine and I know their specs the low-end frequency limit of that center is around 320Hz or so. Combining the small speaker setting as well as the natural crossover rate of a closed box system (12dB/octave) you are looking at anywhere from a 36dB to 48dB cut at 80Hz. We'd be deaf or the speaker would be non-functional by the time bass leaked in.
Also, crossovers themselves are fairly brute force devices in controlling frequency response. The very nature of the components used and how they work would prohibit any such pops UNLESS a component of the crossover itself is failing. There is no "magical" frequency combination that could create pops. And, since the Outlaw, like many other new recievers, uses active filtering via a DSP, the DSP would be the culprit if it were not to be the encoding itself.
Chest, there is also another factor you forgot to mention to everyone that I just remembered, we are using a DxR3 on a PII 266. It very well maybe the DxR3 or computer since it is the computer not the DxR3 that decodes the audio from the disc to be sent to the Outlaw.
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