Totem Rainmaker distortion??

Talk with the manufacturer first. If they suggest removing the driver, get the name of the person you talk to. It doesn't hurt to cover your bases.

Gmood1, my previous experience was with Paradigm. It worked just as you said except that I paid for the tweeter. They insisted I must have over driven the speakers which I doubt.
My point is, if the speakers aren't even broken in yet, Trumpetbri should insist Totem take care of the problem.

Yes I understand Timrhu. He could also just take them back to the dealer..if close enough. Let the dealer take the driver out and see if this is the problem. Man..I'm glad I haven't had to deal with Paradigm's customer service.

The two companies I dealt with were much smaller and customer friendly. Neither company charged me for the replacement. One of them even 1 day shipped the driver to me for free. All I had to do was drop the original in the same shipping box and let the courier pick it up. It didn't cost me a dime.

If you think about it... it could go either way. They could still claim the speaker was damaged by the owner. Whether shipped back or not..it just depends on the company.

Thanks to all of you for your helpful suggestions! I bought them from Mike Wall...(supposedly a dealer) here on Audiogon.) They were brand new "factory sealed." I'm in hopes he will take care of me. I've never encountered this from speakers before. I was wondering if the Ayre burn in disc could have caused this. I've only used the brown noise track at reasonable moderate levels. Who knows, could it have loosened things up inside? Again, it hasn't hurt other speakers in ANY way...only helped speed the burn in. Thanks for any other view points you can offer on the Ayre disc or whatever your experiences are with burn in/speakers etc. -Brian.

You might have checked this already, but I had a similar problem with a pair of Usher bookshelf speakers. After some careful listening, I found one of the binding posts was loose and was resonating (I was using banana connectors). I removed the terminal cup, tightened all of the posts and the sound went away.