I had a friend of mine over for the weekend. My wife was away along with his fiance on a hens weekend. We planned a bit of a guy's Fight Night evening based around some UFC matches I recorded with a few bouts of Fight Night Round 4 on 360 in between.
Needless to say a number of beers were hurt in the process and we wound up in a debate about music, MP3s vs CDs and what not. During this process we decided to listen to a track on his i-phone, a heavily compressed version of Black Sabbath's Paranoid. After playing just this one track, when I got up to swap out his i-Phone for my i-Pod, I noticed a burnt smell coming from my IQ3s.
Now I'm curious about two things:
1. It's not the first time I've played my system at those volumes, and for a more extended period of time. Why would just one track cause the speakers to overheat? Is it because it's just such a relentless song or could it have to do with the compressed nature of the file?
2. Should I be concerened about using these speakers now? They sound fine, but I know next to nothing about the inner workings of such things and he last thing I would want is for a fire to start while pottering about in another area of the apartment.
Needless to say a number of beers were hurt in the process and we wound up in a debate about music, MP3s vs CDs and what not. During this process we decided to listen to a track on his i-phone, a heavily compressed version of Black Sabbath's Paranoid. After playing just this one track, when I got up to swap out his i-Phone for my i-Pod, I noticed a burnt smell coming from my IQ3s.
Now I'm curious about two things:
1. It's not the first time I've played my system at those volumes, and for a more extended period of time. Why would just one track cause the speakers to overheat? Is it because it's just such a relentless song or could it have to do with the compressed nature of the file?
2. Should I be concerened about using these speakers now? They sound fine, but I know next to nothing about the inner workings of such things and he last thing I would want is for a fire to start while pottering about in another area of the apartment.
