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2006-10-13 17:46:32
T4rd
Member
+44|7125|West Point, NY
I have Logitechs Z-5500 5.1 system mated with a X-Fi Platinum sound card.  Before I moved, these speakers hissed a little bit with the volume mid to high range.  After I moved, I baught some better/thicker speaker (Monster 16 guage, I think) cable to use with them since the factory cables weren't long enough to go around my room.  After replacing all my factory speaker cable with the new stuff, I'm hearing the hissing a lot more at lower volumes and I'm even getting distortion in music at mid-range when I've never noticed this before.  It might have actually done this after I moved with the factory speaker cable too but I never used it enough before I replaced it to notice.  I need help finding out what is making my speakers hiss so badly even at low volumes. 

MUCH thanks and karma to all that provide helpful insight!

Last edited by T4rd (2006-10-13 17:46:59)

2006-10-13 17:49:35
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|7166|Riva, MD
There was a snake in the cables, lol.
2006-10-13 17:51:45
T4rd
Member
+44|7125|West Point, NY

_j5689_ wrote:

There was a snake in the cables, lol.
Fail, lol.  No karma for you

Last edited by T4rd (2006-10-13 17:52:12)

2006-10-13 18:49:08
Stealth42o
She looked 18 to me officer
+175|7121
Are you next to a large power source like your PSU or such?  Something is picking up (Most likely) electrical interfiance.  COuld be you wires, could be your speakers.  What you need to do is troubleshoot one step at a time.

Move your speakers as far away from anything that gives of either an electrical or remote (Cell phones, cordless phones, etc) signal.  See if that helps.  Try useing some 18 gauge POS wiring.  If you got anohter set of speakers, hook them up and try them out.

You just need to start checking off whats NOT the problem.

IE
If you hook up a new set of speaker s and no problems, you sound card is ok.

If you move a power sourse closer and it gets worse, the PS is your problem, etc.

Just mess around with everything (Even if it seems stupid), and you will find it.

Good lcuk
Chris
2006-10-13 20:51:15
psycokiller05
Jihad God
+18|7043

Stealth42o wrote:

Are you next to a large power source like your PSU or such?  Something is picking up (Most likely) electrical interfiance.  COuld be you wires, could be your speakers.  What you need to do is troubleshoot one step at a time.

Move your speakers as far away from anything that gives of either an electrical or remote (Cell phones, cordless phones, etc) signal.  See if that helps.  Try useing some 18 gauge POS wiring.  If you got anohter set of speakers, hook them up and try them out.

You just need to start checking off whats NOT the problem.

IE
If you hook up a new set of speaker s and no problems, you sound card is ok.

If you move a power sourse closer and it gets worse, the PS is your problem, etc.

Just mess around with everything (Even if it seems stupid), and you will find it.

Good lcuk
Chris
yeah do have to agree more than likely sound card had same problem with my compt replaced the sound card and its fine but i would try every thing before you get new sound card by a cheap set of speakers and make sure it is the card first
2006-10-13 20:52:35
Miller
IT'S MILLER TIME!
+271|7205|United States of America

T4rd wrote:

_j5689_ wrote:

There was a snake in the cables, lol.
Fail, lol.  No karma for you
And only one type of viper hisses, no other snakes do.
2006-10-13 21:08:10
StormEye
Sniper
+50|7094|Malibu
Since this is 'speaker interference' post, I want to ask whether exchanging my current default wires, that were provided when I bought Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1 System, to something like a monster cable or something then it would sound better (or remove some interference)?
2006-10-13 21:16:04
leftoverkiller
Member
+9|6912
it sounds like one or more is wired out of phase. check to see that all of your connections are right . positive on the amp to positive on the speaker. red to red black to black. i had the same thing with my home theater system. one of my surround channels was reversed. fixed it and the hiss and distortion went away. hope you find it soon .
2006-10-14 11:38:10
Stealth42o
She looked 18 to me officer
+175|7121

leftoverkiller wrote:

it sounds like one or more is wired out of phase. check to see that all of your connections are right . positive on the amp to positive on the speaker. red to red black to black. i had the same thing with my home theater system. one of my surround channels was reversed. fixed it and the hiss and distortion went away. hope you find it soon .
Good thought!  That one slipped my mind.  It's just a matter of troubleshooting EVERYTHING you can think of (Or we can think off).

Also, try unhooking all you speakers and leave you sub connected.  Check you connections on your sub, no hissing, then hook up each speaker on at a time.

You will get it, just a pain in the ass sometimes to troubleshoot these things.

Again good luck
Chris
2006-10-14 16:44:21
T4rd
Member
+44|7125|West Point, NY
Thanks a lot guys.  I found out what it was and it wasn't anything you all suggested.  But I still appreciated it greatly!

I found out that if I had my PC off and I turned my speakers up, the hissing went away completely even at the highest volume.  So that told me that it was software related cuz the hiss would come back after I got windows booted and back to my desktop.  So after going through all my audio properties and muting everything one by one, I came to the "microphone," mute it, then the sound dissappears completely.  I do have a mic hooked up but not turned on so I guess it was picking up static from my mic.  So here's my solution for anyone that searches for it or runs into this problem in the future!

Thanks again guys!

 

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