hi all,
i need opinions on what the fault is on one of my active speakers. i have 2 american audio XSP 10A's which i've only had for a week.
new years eve i was dj'ing at a party (standard sized living room with about 12 people present) with them and after about 2 hours of playing one speakers audio was distorting and i thought the speaker had blown, but i checked both speakers and there was no clip LED flashing, no red clip light showing on either speaker and both heatsinks were warm to touch but not very warm.
I run the speakers through the native instruments Audio 2DJ USB sound card with a 1/4 inch stereo jack to RCA adapter, then running one RCA to XLR male cable to each of the speakers, both speakers volume, treble and bass were set exactly the same positions, one speaker sounded great, very clear and punchy, the other started distorting after 2 hours. i dj'd till 5am with the one speaker which i had no problems with. When i got home 7pm new years day i tested the one speaker that the audio was distorting, and when i powered it up and played some tracks it sounded fine, just as good as the other one, so that outruled a blown driver unit, so i played a recorded mix i have which is about 2 and a half hours long and again after about 2 hours of playing music through the speaker it started to distort again, so i turned the speaker off for 10 minutes then powered it up again and after 10 minutes of playing the sound started to distort again. I've swapped all cables to rule out any faults with my cables. The RCA inputs and the Microphone input work ok even when i connect to the RCA input straight after the audio distortion happens the audio through the RCA inputs is great, the way it should be. Anyone know what this fault could be, i'm thinking a faulty XLR line input connector on the speaker and it's causing the audio signal to degrade.
I'm ok as the speakers are still covered by warranty as i've only had them for a week.
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