Broken PPI? Maybe?

[idiot 7]

An interesting thing happened in my system recently. I

[PaulD 0]

if I'm reading what you're saying right, you probably ..... a blown mid, a loose wire at the passive crossover or a mis-set knob. Are you using a crossover built-in to the CD player ? If so, the internal x-over might be damaged as well - or got mis-set.