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Gonna add this to netflix queue also, cant wait to hear the sound. Didn't know Sam Rockwell was in this. Anyone seen Moon? I love that movie, it came out of nowhere to be one of my favorite all time moves. Perfect blu ray and amazing score by Clint Mansell

Sam's pretty good in this. He had different ideas about his character (that he should have a horrible, fake tan), that Marvel disagreed with. So his orange hands disappear after the first time we see him.

Of course, nothing tops his performance in Safe Men.

I watched this movie again yesterday and looked out for the orange hands. There is one scene where Justin Hammer is eating ice cream and the inside of his hands/palms look discoloured. That scene in particular is one of my favorites between Mickey and Sam, and even then if you didn't point that out I wouldn't have noticed. That must have been one of the first scenes that was shot because I didn't notice it during the senate hearing.

This weekend, I was by myself for I couple of hours so I decided to watch the first Ironman at loud volume. Something is bothering me. During the scene where Ironman is about to go to Afghanistan to rescue the villagers and he enters sonic speed, one of the woofers on the M80s made a strange noise (I don't have a sub). It sounded like if there was a hole on the driver, or maybe similar to what I would imagine being port noise on a sub even though I never heard what a port noise sounds like. I repeated this scene a couple of times getting the same effect. If I lower the volume, I don't hear it no more. The only other time that I experienced that was when I watched Percy Jackson and the Olympians during the first scene where Poseidon gets out of the water and steps on the ground (again, at loud volume). Worried that one of my woofers would be damaged, I played some music with heavy bass loud but everything sounds fine. Do you think one of my woofers could be damaged? Could this be that my receiver only has 100 wpc and at this particular moment it requires more? Could it also be that these scenes have very low frequencies and the M80s are trying to play them but can't? Both times, it seemed to come from my bottom right woofer. Any ideas?

I haven't watched Iron Man 1 in a while. It has some strong LFE in some scenes well below 25hz IIRC. At very loud volumes with the M80's set to large the LFE might be too much for the M80's at the volumes you are listening to. Without a more specific description, those noises could be also caused by the amplifier clipping during those dynamic peaks in the movie. The LFE content in Iron Man 1 can be taxing even with subwoofers, possibly causing "flapping", "rattling" and "farting" sounds. There is plenty of dynamic range in the Blu-ray soundtrack which might require power reserves in specific h/t applications and listening requirements.

Thanks Dr, could this damage the woofers?

Yes it could.

It might also be in the soundtrack itself...

Sounds like a similar problem I was having with the EP175. It went away when I upgraded to the EP350.