So we re-ran Dark Knight last night (the girls just had to see it, I was the only interested party on Xmas) and it clearly was the left M80 (mostly) that had the popping sounds, I replaced the speaker cable and RCA interconnect to no avail. Switched the Yammie settings to "small" for the M80s and crossover to "40 Hz" ("60 Hz" sounded like crap without a sub) which resulted in an amazing improvement; lost the deep, teaser "wannabe" LFEs but also lost the major popping sounds on this program material and gained an incredible improvement in the integration of the center, M80s, and surrounds (no more cheesy "Oooo" wind or other formerly ridiculous e.g. HF "audience clapping" sound effects); no joke, the surround effects really sound great now, I suppose that's no surprise but it's news to me, whew the qs8s actually perform as advertised, still waiting for the 800 . . .
