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- GTP_Jondot
With my laptop pretty much dead in the water until pcworld answer their phone calls, i have turned to my 3 year old tiny desktop for a substitute. I like decent sound quality, so, as i did with my laptop, plugged it into my hifi with a 3.5mm jack to two phono/rca leads. This worked fine for a while, but i noticed today that i am experiencing a sudden drop in sound quality.
I played a song on itunes, and realised tha it was dreadful quality. Worrying it was my hifi (3 years old and still going strong), i tried playing a cd, and was blown away by the great quality. So it wasn't my hifi speakers, phew! I then tried plugging my ipod into the 3.5mm jack (a headphone sized connector if you were wondering), put my hifi on aux, an listened. Again, great sound quality. I then got the same song playing on both pc and ipod, and switched between. The pc was dreadful quality in comparison. To see if it was my pc reacting to the cable, i plugged a few differant sets of headphones in. They were all dreadful quality on the pc, and great on the ipod.
So, i thought my sound card had had it.
Then i played a movie file in windows media player, and the sound was fine.
I then wondered if it ws itunes, and played the same song in both itunes and windows media player. When i played it in itunes, it mysteriously stopped being such dreadful quality.
How curious - a sudden drop in quality, and then back to normal again within a few minutes. Ahhhhh!!!
Why is it doing this, and should i get a new sound card?
Thanks in advance
Jon
I played a song on itunes, and realised tha it was dreadful quality. Worrying it was my hifi (3 years old and still going strong), i tried playing a cd, and was blown away by the great quality. So it wasn't my hifi speakers, phew! I then tried plugging my ipod into the 3.5mm jack (a headphone sized connector if you were wondering), put my hifi on aux, an listened. Again, great sound quality. I then got the same song playing on both pc and ipod, and switched between. The pc was dreadful quality in comparison. To see if it was my pc reacting to the cable, i plugged a few differant sets of headphones in. They were all dreadful quality on the pc, and great on the ipod.
So, i thought my sound card had had it.
Then i played a movie file in windows media player, and the sound was fine.
I then wondered if it ws itunes, and played the same song in both itunes and windows media player. When i played it in itunes, it mysteriously stopped being such dreadful quality.
How curious - a sudden drop in quality, and then back to normal again within a few minutes. Ahhhhh!!!
Why is it doing this, and should i get a new sound card?
Thanks in advance
Jon
