Creative Inspire 5200 - Bass crackle

Hi,
I have creative inspire 5200 connected to Philips DVD Player. The combination works fine with less bass level. When i increase the bass level, i am experiencing crackle in subwoofer where as satellite speaker works fine(no distortion in sound). The distortion is not continuous, it comes and goes off(once in while). Please let me know the solution for this.
Regards
Abhinandan

(Re: Creative Inspire 5200 - Bass crackle, abhinandan_gs,
I suspect you're just overdriving the subwoofer input, and when you have an LFE signal, you're experiencing digital clipping.
CL speakers are designed to accept an LFE-level signal which is 10dB softer than standard line-level. The DVD player is putting out line-level, and then the speakers are amplifying it +10db further, which puts it out of balance with the others. To test this, disconnect the subwoofer cable and see if the crackle goes away. I expect you will still have bass coming from the subwoofer, because the normal bass is in the non-LFE channels, and the speaker crossover will redirect that to the subwoofer, but I don't know what kind of bass management the DVD player might also do. If you think that's the problem, the next thing to do is to lower the subwoofer output 0dB before it reaches the speaker input. If you can't do that with the DVD player's controls, we can go into how to add a simple volume control to the subwoofer cable connection.
-Dave
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