not at first, but after a month or so every time I went to turn the volume up or down it would produce a lot of static out of the right speaker. Then it got worse, when I would turn the volume up or down, it would produce static and the right speaker would cut out. So I have to have volume at 12:00 and use the computer mixer to turn the volume up or down. Let me tell you its a pain in the ***! If anyone knows about this or knows about how I could just get a new pod for my 4.1 set please tell me.