Preston Crawford spake the following on 5/1/2007 1:14 PM:
Preston Crawford wrote:
Has anyone experienced this before? This happened to me even under CentOS 4.x. But basically what happens is that when I play MP3s, whatever the right speaker crackles at higher volume. And it's always that speaker and only that speaker. If I turn the balance to the other speaker I have no problems. So it feels like it might be a mixer issue. I use Alsa, of course, as that's what the default is. Is this a known issue or does someone know how to fix it?
plug some small headphones into the line out jack of the sound card (large phones require too much juice), and see if you hear the crackling over these under the same settings. if you DONT, its not the system or the hardware, its your speakers. if you DO, you can continue to look into sound card issues.
I'll try that, but why would 3 pairs of new speakers not be able to function on the exact same side? I'm not sure I understand the technical reason why all 3 speaker sets (different brands) would be malfunctioning on the same side.
Preston
It could be as simple as a bad/dirty jack on the output. That would explain why all the speakers are noisy on the same side.