> 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. > Yeah. Plugged in headphones and the same thing happened. No way it's software related? Weird. I guess maybe I'll try putting a sound card into it. Preston