Extremely Frustrating Audio problem

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Year.Zero

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This is p***ing me off to no end. My front left speaker is loud. LOUD.

My middle speaker is decent.

My rear left speaker is a little quiet.

My front right speaker is dead silent-- unless volume is turned up to the max, in which case I can hear about 5% volume coming out of it.

My rear right speaker is almost totally silent.


I've checked and double checked and triple checked the connections. This is driving me insane. I've reinstalled drivers. I've even downloaded chipset updates for my motherboard.

It's a Creative T5400 soundsystem, where the sub is the connection hub for all of the speakers. Comes with a remote, though, and that has a headphone plugin jack for it. When I plug headphones into it, that also only comes out the left channel.

I've used the speaker calibration software, to no avail. I've checked the Windows settings—they all appear to be in check.

All of the individual speakers work when each one is tested on the FrL audio output.

So it seems the output ports on the back of the sub for the front right and rear right speakers are either dysfunctional, or completely damaged.

Is there no way to find out for sure?
 
If you're only getting sound out of the left speakers, is there a balance setting/dial you need to check?
 
TB
If you're only getting sound out of the left speakers, is there a balance setting/dial you need to check?
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Nope. Aside from software diagnostics, and left/right balance (with I've spent hours experimenting with), nothing. Nothing analogue, anyway.
 
Have you tried moving around the connections to the sound card to see if the problem is there instead of the outputs on the sub? Figure out what the left channel is and switch it with another one. If nothing changes you can probably settle on it being a hardware problem with the soundsystem.
 
Eric.
Have you tried moving around the connections to the sound card to see if the problem is there instead of the outputs on the sub? Figure out what the left channel is and switch it with another one. If nothing changes you can probably settle on it being a hardware problem with the soundsystem.
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I'm 99% sure it is, now.

Such is the folly of eBay.
 
Have you tried switching the right and left speaker, to see if the speaker itself is broken?
 

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