On 4 Mar 2006, at 22:24, Jonathan Berry wrote: > By "muddy" do you mean that it has a low hum in the background? Most > likely you have a ground loop. Do you have your laptop plugged into > the wall? I assume you probably do. Try unplugging it and see if it > goes away. If so, you have a ground loop. Basically, the computer > ground and stero ground are the same and form a circuit path through > the audio. If you can isolate one or the other, it should go away. A > 3-2 prong plug adapter will do this somewhat nicely. You lose the > ground on one (probably the laptop) so it's a little less safe, but > shouldn't really be a problem.
Thanks for the suggestion, but no, that is not at all what I meant by "muddy." I know a 60 Hz hum from wall wiring, and this is not that at all. When the music pauses or there is a rest the stereo becomes totally silent. Totally. No hum at all. What I am trying to describe is what your speakers would sound like if you stuffed pillows into them -- muffled, high tones clipped, inadequate definition, no brightness, horns sounding like they were in the basement. I think it's some kind of a mismatch. I know if you plug a 4-ohm headset into an iPod that expects a 32-ohm headset the fidelity will suffer. This is sort of what I am thinking might be causing the problem. But I don't know enough about how these things work. _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
