Hi,
Glad to hear it's the CD, as I rather expected because the symptoms weren't audible on other recordings with well-recorded bass lines. Just a thought here: the recording of electric bass can vary widely from one recording engineer to another. Some engineers take the feed from the electric bass "direct", plugging it directly into the recording console, thus bypassing any acoustic output through a bass amp/speaker in the studio. It could be distortion or overload by the former method or (it just occurred to me), if the bass was recorded the convenional way, with a mike in front of the bass amp in the studio, a damaged driver in the bass amp (or distorion) or a combination of the two could be the source of the problem. I don't have the CD, but audible distortion on CDs because of eccentric recording practices isn't all that uncommon. I have several in my own collection, and I know the stories behind them. People make mistakes, including recording engineers!
Glad your Axiom speakers continue to satisfy.
Regards,
Alan Lofft
Axiom Resident Expert
