Caoilin
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constant stream of irritating noises coming out of my speakers if they're up any higher than like.. what i'm guessing would be 5 out of 100. speakers are old as HELL but are really good and they don't make them like this for comps anymore. so i'm kind of hoping it's my sound card producing weird sounds but i'm thinking it's probably the speakers. unfortunately i don't have an extra set of speakers to test the card on. the noises are hard to describe. it kind of reminds me a little bit of modem sounds. sometimes it does that and sometimes it's like a constant relatively high pitched tone.
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i run my TV into my "line in" on my sound card so i can use my pc speakers for my ps3 and movies. when im using the computer(aslo on the TV), i get the the exact same phenomena you describe unless i mute the line in. do you have any external audio sources as audio inputs on your sound card?
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I think that is the computer. Normally speakers are very vulnerable to what is called induction. It usually comes from the speaker wires being run in parallel and too close to power wires, but in your case I think it is bad circuitry on the computer sound card hardware. Unfortunately you're going to need a way to test this and it is made more difficult because it is a computer. If it was just normal audio equipment you could just turn it all up with no actual music and see what was in the noise floor.
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Interesting.....Last time I got interference sounds from my speakers, I could hear it go up with mouse movement...then I blew my PSU  - No problems since.
It was a weird HUM with static during mouse movements.
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hmm i think they're all still plugged into the splitter that i had with an amazing set of headphones that broke and i had to dump. i didn't want to get behind it to unplug everything and figure out which cord went where with my reg speakers again. that's probably what the problem is.
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lol i pulled the splitter cables out and now the whole back thing for sound doesn't work. but if i plug the speakers into the front audio, it works fine. i still get noise if i have the speakers turned up about half way but that's nothing.
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Do these speakers have a built in amp circuit?
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i don't know. it's a 2.1 system with a woofer that's powered.
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