Laptop sound?

Post by **Lowlander** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:22 pm

Whenever I plugin the powercord to my laptop the sound changes completely, the whole lower tone end falls away, giving the effect of cheap speakers.

Does anyone know what setting could possibly have changed when the power gets connected?

Using WinXP Pro.

Baschtler · Post by **Baschtler** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:27 am

I suppose that aint a softwore problem. Its more likely that its an electronic problem.

I have the problem that there are strange noisy sounds as long as my power cord from my laptop is plugged in.
If its running on battlery power the sound is fine.

Changing the power plugs doesnt help.

I got a toshiba satellite M30X.

The problem only occurs when my laptop is attached to the stereo. When I listen over the internal laptop speakers, theres no problem.

sadao · Post by **sadao** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:57 am

Is this media monkey specific, or does it happen with any sound application?

Post by **Lowlander** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 11:31 am

It happens with any application, so MM is not the culprit. The weird thing is that it completely changes the sound from something warm (I generally have the lower spectrum set a little higher) to a tin can sound (I generally have the higher spectrum set lower).

Interference is common on PC audio cards. Baschtler you are probably having interference from the electric field your power supply is generating. Are you using audio out or the internal speakers?

It's often recomended to use an external USB audio solution (creative has some nice ones) as electronics inside a PC/Laptop cause interference with the audio signal. An external soundcard can be seperated from these electronics. Make sure that you read the specs as some support 5.1 or more surround and s/pdif. But the s/pdif is only stereo itself.

For laptops they also sell pccard solutions, some with s/pdif.