Horrible sound from speakers when playing loud music.

[lewis2701]

I purchased the corsair SP2200 speakers from here about 3 months ago and I've just noticed that when i have the bass all the way up and the volume on both the speakers and my pc fairly high they also play a horrible sound which is totally un describable in text but its just a really loud 'oom' sound constantly until i turn them down. Also I've discovered when there plugged into my laptop, if i touch my laptop the sound of the touch is amplified through the speakers. For example if i tap the back of the laptop display the sub pumps out a deep bass beat. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and what i can do to stop it?

Cheers.

 

[Demon]

I purchased the corsair SP2200 speakers from here about 3 months ago and I've just noticed that when i have the bass all the way up and the volume on both the speakers and my pc fairly high they also play a horrible sound which is totally un describable in text but its just a really loud 'oom' sound constantly until i turn them down. Also I've discovered when there plugged into my laptop, if i touch my laptop the sound of the touch is amplified through the speakers. For example if i tap the back of the laptop display the sub pumps out a deep bass beat. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and what i can do to stop it?

Cheers.

The laptop thing sounds like perhaps the microphone is active and sending that out the speakers all the time, bring up the mixer in windows and mute all recording/mic channels and see if it goes away.

As for the first issue, I suspect having the bass all the way up and turning up the volume is a recipe for disaster and it sounds like standard reverberation from the amplifier and woofer (these are cheapish speakers).. by turning the bass all the way up, you are probably actually maxing out the woofer when the PC volume isn't even at 50%, anymore and it's going to distort..

All my cheaper Logitech/Creative stuff behaves teh same way, if you turn up the bass control on them to max, it very very quickly loses all composure and starts resonating/reverberating and it's horrible.

The SP2500's I've recently acquired have active DSP to ensure that as long as the source signal isn't distorted, you can turn it all up to max on the speakers with no distortion as it's managing the drive to each speaker to ensure it's always driven within it's limits...

 

[lewis2701]

Ah okay, very helpful. Thank you.

Edit* Just opened mixer and disabled the microphone and the problem has completely gone