Speakers buzzing sound

mufcmark · 25 Feb 2011 at 19:39

Hey,

My logitech X-240 speakers give a buzzing sound from time to time but its beginning to become more frequent.

The buzzing is not noticeable during games or films but when browsing and no sound is being played, the buzzing is quite noticeable.

Is there any way to stop the buzzing?

The other problem the speakers have is very, very strange to say the least. When I leave the speakers on when the computer is off, the speakers play some Austrian radio station. and I can hear opera from time to time.

Any ideas on why that is happening?

Philtor · 25 Feb 2011 at 20:06

mufcmark said:
When I leave the speakers on when the computer is off, the speakers play some Austrian radio station. and I can hear opera from time to time.

Sorry but I genuinely lol'd at this. Your speakers are picking up EMI (and Opera singers) which could be due to a number of things. Have you tried moving the speakers away from any power source and ensuring the audio cables don't cross over with your PSU cable etc? I would even connect the speakers on a separate power source (if they need one). They are picking up EMI from somewhere so I would try and move them away from the PC and just run a normal cable into the audio out jack to see what happens.

koooowweeee · 25 Feb 2011 at 20:16

Lol

do you sing along to it.

The buzzing could be the drivers for your sound card. Or the cable not plugged in properly

neblemak · 25 Feb 2011 at 21:38

Have you got a cordless telephone base station nearby?

koooowweeee · 25 Feb 2011 at 21:42

neblemak said:
Have you got a cordless telephone base station nearby?

Lol i tree to get crazy things threw my old cordless phone was really funny.

Thekwango · 25 Feb 2011 at 22:27

sorry to lol, but LOL.

on my first pc, an old TINY brand with a dial up connection, if the speakers were on and someone made a call on the house phone we could listen in on the conversation. was great fun till my house mate overheard his sister(who lived with us for a while) talking to her boyfriend.....wont go into the conversation details on a family forum, but he was not impressed

Pighardia · 25 Feb 2011 at 22:32

you don't have your speakers plugged in to an Austrian radio by mistake do you?

It's always the little things you overlook!!

Mak3R · 25 Feb 2011 at 22:41

My logitech speakers do the exact same thing

Although I usually pick up some christian radio channel. I found the easiest way to avoid this was to turn up the speaker volume louder on the speakers themselves, then turn down the system volume to compensate. Only seems to do it for me when the speakers are at a low volume.

Michaeljcox24 · 25 Feb 2011 at 22:43

I used to have a problem like that, i think from memory I stoppped it by muting everything other than the main volume in windows audio control (eg line in, mic etc)

Baldbloke · 25 Feb 2011 at 23:26

If it's cables picking up signals (we don't know if it is though) then changing the cable length may help. Or at least get a different station. lol.