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radio coming out of my computer's sound system??

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yhlee

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i recently got the dell HK695 speakers with the subwoofer..

now for some bizarre reason, i hear some radio station on my speakers. it's very faint but when i'm playing classical music, it creates some dissonance and if i pause it i can definitely hear it. Raising the volume on windows or the speakers does nothing.

It's simply speakers plugged into subwoofer plugged into the green slot of my SB live. If i unplug my sub from my sound card, i still get the radio. If i unplug my wire from the sub to the speakers, i don't have the sound anymore (obviously), and if i plug in the speakers directly to the sound card, no radio sounds.

anyone have a clue what the heck could be going on? is something wrong with my sub? something wrong with the wire from the sub to my speakers?

thanks 🙂

-young
 
Originally posted by: yhlee
i recently got the dell HK695 speakers with the subwoofer..

now for some bizarre reason, i hear some radio station on my speakers. it's very faint but when i'm playing classical music, it creates some dissonance and if i pause it i can definitely hear it. Raising the volume on windows or the speakers does nothing.

It's simply speakers plugged into subwoofer plugged into the green slot of my SB live. If i unplug my sub from my sound card, i still get the radio. If i unplug my wire from the sub to the speakers, i don't have the sound anymore (obviously), and if i plug in the speakers directly to the sound card, no radio sounds.

anyone have a clue what the heck could be going on? is something wrong with my sub? something wrong with the wire from the sub to my speakers?

thanks 🙂

-young
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hehe i live by a small airport and form time to time my speakers pick up the tradio transmission from the pilot to the tower, its rather amusing actually

 
Your sub is picking up a radio signal. Try using a surge protector with EMI/RFI filter. Other than that, maybe the internal wiring of the sub is bad and is causing it too pick up the signal. Maybe some copper sheets lined on the outside of the sub could help.
 
It usually has to do with badly shielded wires. If the wires aren't shielded properly, you'll get somthing like this. I had the low end cambridge soundworks PC works speakers and they did the exact same thing.
 
happened before when I was on dial-up Internet connection. Only happened when I go online, but doesn't happen when I'm offline.

Now I have broadband cable, it doesn't happen to me anymore.

I assumed it's something related with the phone wire.
 
i've had that on my monsoon's, never figured out how to get rid of it. doenst' happen that frequently after i moved.
 
thanks for all your responses.. i live in a big apartment building with many ppl,i guess i'll just have to use headphones 🙁

xiety: some of your thread's responses were a lot less helpful than here 🙂 " pour water on your hard drive. " lol!
 
Wow. Sounds like something in your sub is acting as a tuner. I agree with the others: poor design and engineering. I'd return them if I still could and try something else.
 
I have 2 sets of Cambridge SoundWorks PCWorks speakers that do this. Very annoying. Luckily, I don't have to use them.
 
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