Terrible sound

[Jim Ludwig]

Hi all,
I'm having a peculiar problem with my computer. Recently, I blew my Boston
Accoustics speakers somehow (I don't play them loud) and replaced them with
Creative I-trigue speakers. The new speakers sound terrible too. After
some experimenting, I found that they sound fine when playing a WAV or MIDI
file, but they sound terrible when playing WMA or MP3 songs, which is what I
primarily listen too. I have a Soundblaster Live! sound card with the most
up to date driver. I plugged my old speakers back in and found the same
thing, so they weren't blown at all. Listening to regular music cd's also
sounds terrible. Can someone tell me what is wrong and what I need to do to
correct this? Reply directly if possible.

Thanks,
Jim

 

[Sam]

Sometime on, or about Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:15:27 -0500, Jim Ludwig
wrote:

Hi all,
I'm having a peculiar problem with my computer. Recently, I blew my Boston
Accoustics speakers somehow (I don't play them loud) and replaced them with
Creative I-trigue speakers. The new speakers sound terrible too. After
some experimenting, I found that they sound fine when playing a WAV or MIDI
file, but they sound terrible when playing WMA or MP3 songs, which is what I
primarily listen too. I have a Soundblaster Live! sound card with the most
up to date driver. I plugged my old speakers back in and found the same
thing, so they weren't blown at all. Listening to regular music cd's also
sounds terrible. Can someone tell me what is wrong and what I need to do to
correct this? Reply directly if possible.

Thanks,
Jim

What might have really "blown" is your sound card. Can you swap in
another one temporarily to see if it makes a difference?

Sam

 

[Jim Ludwig]

Peter,
I am thinking about getting the Audigy card because I've tried everything
that has been suggested to me. I notice that the Audigy card is 5.1, 6.1 or
7.1 capable. However, I only have a 2.1 speaker setup. Will my 2.1 setup
work with the Audigy or do I have to buy a 5.1 speaker system?

Thanks again,
Jim

 

[Jim Ludwig]

I'm actually beginning to suspect that this is the problem.

Thanks,
Jim

 

[Sam]

Sometime on, or about Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:40:22 -0500, Jim Ludwig
wrote:

I'm actually beginning to suspect that this is the problem.

Thanks,
Jim

If your motherboard has onboard sound, you may want to try enabling
that and taking out your existing sound card. You can at least verify
that it's the sound card that way.

Sam