santa cruz

[strikermike]

Hi all,
I need some help. I just installed a turtle beach santa cruz sound card on my computer. The sound is terrible, all music and game sounds are scratchy and distorted as if the input is overmodulated. Motherboard is an Abit Kr7A-raid with athlon 1700+ processor.
The sound card is in pci slot 5. The OS is windows 98se with all updates and current drivers for the sound card. Does anyone Have any suggestions.

 

[Maetryx]

Do you have the speakers turned down real low, and the volume settings in Windows turned up real high? You might want to set your speakers to a middle volume setting, like the knob turned half way, and then adjust your output levels downward. You may be distorting the sound by using to high of a signal strength/volume leve.

 

[strikermike]

Hi Maetryx,
My current speskers have no volume control. All volume levels are in the middle.

 

[Adul]

try some headphones.

 

[Maetryx]

It is likely that your soundcard is sending a unamplified signal to your speakers, and expects your speakers to be powered. You may need to get some different speakers that have powered amplifiers built in.

 

[TheWart]

I believe Maetryx is right, especially since you said your speaks have no volume control themselves.