"Dennis Leiterman" wrote in message
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Hi Charles
I just got a digital box last week and had what sounds like your same
problem,
loud cracking and sometimes fading of the music....I just had the cable
guy
out last night with a signal meter. It turned out that I was maginally
low
on the signal. On my line it was -7db as calibrated on his meter, he
said it should be 0db.

Oh boy. I hate reading things like this.

weitrhino



I do have a splitter before the box, so he
put an amplifier right before the box which boosted the signal to 0db
(where they say it should be). So far, so good!!! Hope this helps
in getting your problem solved.

"Charles Packer" wrote in message
om...
The digital music channels in our cable TV service occasionally
experience some kind of switching glitch that sounds dangerous
to high-end audio systems. What causes it? It's definitely not the
kind of chattering you hear when a CD is bad. I did a Google search of
rec.audio newsgroups and didn't find anything on this. Does it happen to
anybody?

In a year of listening about an hour a day, I've heard this kind of
thing maybe a half-dozen times. Yesterday morning was the
worst of all. I had the volume turned up moderately and heard what
sounded like a rifle shot. The TV image twitched at the same moment.
As I was pondering whether to bail out to a CD, another sharp crack
occurred. I switched to a CD to see if everything was okay. It wasn't.
The right channel frequencies had horrible distortion at high volume.
I turned off my system until I had time to examine the situation in
detail. An hour later, I turned it on, put a CD in...and everything
was normal. My guess is that the tweeter coils actually had to cool
off before coming back to normal. So far, there appears to be no
permanent damage.