Did my speakers just wig out on me?

Deftones · 01-24-03, 04:28 PM

I was listening to some mp3s on winamp. The song was playing fine, then all of the sudden it gets much louder. I did not touch the volume. Now, when I mess with the volume controls on my speakers all I get is off or the same constant volume. The only way to increase/decrease the volume is through winamp or through the windows volume controls. Anyone have an idea of what happened?

Using WinXP, SoundBlaster Live audio card and Boston Acoustics speakers

gcribbs · 01-24-03, 08:15 PM

maybe the MP3 was recorded louder in part of the song?

I know some of the MP3's I have that friends burned for me are louder or softer from song to song while I am not changing the volume at all.

AGuyNamedMike · 01-24-03, 08:56 PM

It sounds like the volume control on your speaker has bit the big one. Are you handy enough to disassemble the speaker enclosure and spray a little contact cleaner into the volume control?

Deftones · 01-24-03, 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gcribbs
maybe the MP3 was recorded louder in part of the song?

I know some of the MP3's I have that friends burned for me are louder or softer from song to song while I am not changing the volume at all.

It's not just that mp3, though. It's all of them, and any video I watch.

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01-24-03, 08:15 PM	#2
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01-24-03, 08:56 PM	#3
AGuyNamedMike DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska! Posts: 13,609	It sounds like the volume control on your speaker has bit the big one. Are you handy enough to disassemble the speaker enclosure and spray a little contact cleaner into the volume control? __________________ Groucho - What if, like, we were all living in a mouse neuron man, and what if some mouse neuron in our universe had a universe it. Whoa. Dr Mabuse - You mock, but Sutherland got some fine young stuff off that kind of thing so don't sell it short.