A very interesting quandry indeed.
I guess the only way to sort out the potential problem is to poll some other users with dvds and the same videos (with the same hookups as well, rca vs digital) to clarify whether these sounds can be heard with anyone else's setup.
You could also possibly switch out your Outlaw with something else to remove the receiver as a possible source of the distortion.
Of course there is always returning it to Axiom for a look see but offhand most broken drivers are relatively easy to hear and determine that a replacement driver is needed.
Can you isolate the distortion to any one particular driver or 'area' of the speaker? Or is the distortion actually 'in' the sound?
I'm planning on buying a VP150 in the next month myself and stories like this make me a tad nervous (obviously due to the $$ spent more than anything).
Let me know how things turn out.
