Name: Anonymous 2005-09-03 20:02
I had a old pair of those small cube gateway speakers. The left one started crackling a week or two ago, so I finally decided to try removing them and instead using a pair of Altec Lansing speakers I got a little while back.
Anyway, the AL speakers only had 3 cords, one that connected the two, the power cord, and the limegreen one that plugs into the sound card (audio out?).
However these speakers are refusing to work properly. Lemme give a example...I plug them in, nothing playing, turn up the sound. Standard white noise, good sign, the powers working and everything. Start up foobar 2000. No sound at all. Deciding to test them a bit, I start up window's media player, start a mp3. Still mostly white noise. Going into the master volume, I turn down the Play control volume and wave/direct sound volume to almost mute, and I can start to hear some of the lyrics and instruments. However the distortion hasn't gone away; I can hear the song, but the increase in the songs volume is very low as I turn the volume up on the speakers. Also, there's a lot of crackling/distortion while the song is playing. The same thing happens on a avi file, or any sound file for that matter.
I then unplug it from the computer, plug the power into a power jack as opposed to the surge protector, and plug the audio jack into a CD player. The speakers work fine, no distortion or white noise. Thinking it's the protector, I try again, but still get the same messed up sound.
Is there anyway to fix this? If it helps, the speakers are Altec Lansing 220, 10 watts of power and require 60hrz to work (though I doubt that affects much). Also, I'm running windows 98.
Summary: Speakers are all distored and crap, only work on really low volumes, and they work on a CD player so it has to be the computer. Anyway to fix this (Win98SE if it changes anything?)
Anyway, the AL speakers only had 3 cords, one that connected the two, the power cord, and the limegreen one that plugs into the sound card (audio out?).
However these speakers are refusing to work properly. Lemme give a example...I plug them in, nothing playing, turn up the sound. Standard white noise, good sign, the powers working and everything. Start up foobar 2000. No sound at all. Deciding to test them a bit, I start up window's media player, start a mp3. Still mostly white noise. Going into the master volume, I turn down the Play control volume and wave/direct sound volume to almost mute, and I can start to hear some of the lyrics and instruments. However the distortion hasn't gone away; I can hear the song, but the increase in the songs volume is very low as I turn the volume up on the speakers. Also, there's a lot of crackling/distortion while the song is playing. The same thing happens on a avi file, or any sound file for that matter.
I then unplug it from the computer, plug the power into a power jack as opposed to the surge protector, and plug the audio jack into a CD player. The speakers work fine, no distortion or white noise. Thinking it's the protector, I try again, but still get the same messed up sound.
Is there anyway to fix this? If it helps, the speakers are Altec Lansing 220, 10 watts of power and require 60hrz to work (though I doubt that affects much). Also, I'm running windows 98.
Summary: Speakers are all distored and crap, only work on really low volumes, and they work on a CD player so it has to be the computer. Anyway to fix this (Win98SE if it changes anything?)