Hi all,
It's been a while since I've posted. I had the opportunity to watch the recent BD version of Star Wars - A New Hope with my kids (first time!) this morning. I noticed many sections throughout the movie where there was dialogue clipping, and very occasional sound FX clipping, from my center channel. I went back later and replayed a scene for trouble shooting. I swapped out another speak in the center channel amp position and duplicated the clipping, suggesting to me that it is either the receiver, the gain staging, the source material, or some factor I'm not considering, but NOT the speaker. The reference scene is the trash compactor scene, right after Han attempts to blast the door down upon entering. Luke yells (distorted) "Will you forget it I already tried it..."
There is some goofy stuff going on with the sound of the dialogue in this scene anyway, with some sounding "clearer" to me - I'm not sure if some of it was taken from different tracks or was mastered differently. Wondering if this is a source issue. I don't remember hearing clipping on other source discs, but I'm not watching that many movies any more. I checked my settings and the calibration software had the channel set at +2, so I bumped every channel back -2 db and the same problem occurred. For whatever it's worth, I was listening/viewing at master volume -24.