Strange clicking/snapping sound coming from my speakers on certain movies
Over the last few weeks when I've been watching certain movies on bluray (Paul / Ted) for e.g
from out of nowhere I suddenly get a loud clicking / snapping sound from my speakers mainly the front three!!
At first I thought maybe it was a dodgy disc with some kind of a flaw on the soundtrack but it appears not as I tried them in another player.
It can be that loud I have to quickly reach for my remote to turn it down, now it doesn't do this on all discs I have, only a selected few and also up to now it hasn't done this sound whilst watching movies on Sky just on my bluray player..
Any suggestions as to what can be causing this? 
Thanks
Sounds like your Denon is finally showing its age....
Sounds like your Denon is finally showing its age....
Older releases I have on bluray are fine, no problems... But it seems to happen on the newer releases 
So could this mean the audio has changed somewhat that the Denon is struggling to read??
Your Denon is a transport only so there's no question of "struggling to read" audio. Try connecting it to another HDMI input in your receiver. May just be a dodgy HDMI port.
Is your Denon up to date with firmware updates?
Your Denon is a transport only so there's no question of "struggling to read" audio. Try connecting it to another HDMI input in your receiver. May just be a dodgy HDMI port.
And yes I'll give it a go bigboss but like you pointed out the Denon is an old boy now and hasn't had any new firmware in 3 years..
Maybe a replacement is on the cards 
Is your Denon up to date with firmware updates?
I've checked on the Denon website and still no further updates, last one was in Dec 2009!!
I've checked on the Denon website and still no further updates, last one was in Dec 2009!!
I think that's the reason.
I've checked on the Denon website and still no further updates, last one was in Dec 2009!!
I think that's the reason.
Have you any recommendations bigboss as to a worthy replacement for the 2500BT?
Been reading up on the Panasonic BDT-500 , good price and a great review??
Panasonic BDT500 is a very good player & has a premium look & feel to it.
It depends on your budget.
Check out the Oppo 103 which has some new features not found in any other player, like Dual HDMI inputs to allow external devices to take advantage of BDP-103EU's video processing:
http://www.oppo-bluray.co.uk/ecommerce/blu-ray-players/BDP-103EU.aspx
Panasonic BDT500 is a very good player & has a premium look & feel to it.
It depends on your budget.
Check out the Oppo 103 which has some new features not found in any other player, like Dual HDMI inputs to allow external devices to take advantage of BDP-103EU's video processing: http://www.oppo-bluray.co.uk/ecommerce/blu-ray-players/BDP-103EU.aspx
I think I would go for the Oppo too.
Apart from the extra features, my main reason for the Oppo would be class leading DVD upscaling. Don't get me wrong; the Panasonic is excellent & has a very good DVD upscaling, but the Oppo beats it in this department.
If this is not important for you, then the Panasonic will be just as good.
Of course you know the drill......demo! 
Weird. We had a very similar situation in our home and then switched to a new/better HDMI cable. Apparently the cheap "in-the-box" HDMI cable that came with our (Samsung) blu-ray player had very poor constrution and caused interruption of signal transfer into the receiver which made the sound go "POP" in our speakers. It wasn't loud or anything but very very disturbing. However, you might have a completely different issue 
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Apart from the extra features, my main reason for the Oppo would be class leading DVD upscaling. Don't get me wrong; the Panasonic is excellent & has a very good DVD upscaling, but the Oppo beats it in this department.
If this is not important for you, then the Panasonic will be just as good.
Of course you know the drill......demo!
Anyway I'm going to borrow the Panasonic in the next few days for a demo (my local hifi store is good like that ) and I'm going to play the couple of discs that do the "clicking" sound and if it isn't present then I'll know that the culprit was my Denon 
And for the record the "clicking" sound does happen in the same place on the film ! 
And also it'll give me an opportunity to see if the PQ / AQ is improved over my Denon
Weird. We had a very similar situation in our home and then switched to a new/better HDMI cable. Apparently the cheap "in-the-box" HDMI cable that came with our (Samsung) blu-ray player had very poor constrution and caused interruption of signal transfer into the receiver which made the sound go "POP" in our speakers. It wasn't loud or anything but very very disturbing. However, you might have a completely different issue ?
And besides if this was the case then why just on certain discs and not all??? Hmmm
Anybody ???
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