gabriel11

Your link goes to www.seejack.com Ouch that music is painful....

Well I right-clicked my taskbar after setting the Audigy mixer back to 4 speaker again and clicked on "Always hide CL speaker icon" (the volume controls icon) in the taskbar properties box in XP Pro. I rebooted my machine yesterdayand.....Taa daa taskbar unused icon arrow is back and speakers stayed in 4 speaker mode... Hey, maybe it's not a fix but it worked for me.

All updated and newest Audigy drivers, prior to my last post...I was hoping you'd have the answer though BTW I read somewhere recently, that when you hit 20,000 posts...The World is going to end...

After every reboot...If I open the mixer I can reset it to 4 speaker sound..But opening the mixer disables my "Hide the unused icons arrow" in my taskbar. XP Pro is the OS I am running...I have "qudraphonic" chosen as my speaker set up in Control Panel.

Newegg.com was in the process of becoming and Autorized Klipsch dealer when I purchased from them...Klipsch may actually accept that since they were considering making them a dealer anyway...I'll wait to see what Amy says.

I bought them from newegg.com in December. I will get ahold of Amy and see what it is she thinks I should do from here. I am assuming that Klipsch will want to do the exchange and that they will not recommend that I return anything to newegg. It would certainly be easier to return the sub only, or would I have to return the whole set?

quote: Originally posted by gabriel11: Well I tried the adapter trick.....They sound AWFUL Now that I've tried the adapter test and found the same distortion (or worse...buzz too) I can assume that it's the speakers. I posted Leeb's reply because he too was an Audigy owner and had a similar problem...his cleared up with the removal of one of the speaker jacks...mine does not, it stays distorted whether I unplug a sat or not. Now when the speakers are plugged in as front only or rear only the distortion is not present...It's a 4 speaker together thing. This message has been edited by gabriel11 on 06-09-2002 at 11:05 PM

Well I tried the adapter trick.....They sound AWFUL Also read this thread... http://216.37.9.58/cgi-bin/ubb/postdisplay.cgi?forum=Forum23&topic=000994 This message has been edited by gabriel11 on 06-09-2002 at 10:37 PM

ASUS CUSL2-C mobo w/Intel 815 chipset and no onboard anything Intel PIII 800 Win XP PRO 384 megs of RAM Maxtor 45 gig 7200rpm HD Audigy Gamer sound card w/latest drivers Creative Labs GeForce 256 Pro 64 meg DDR video card w/DetonatorXP drivers version 28.32 Creative Labs 52X CD-ROM Creative Labs 8432 CDRW Zip 100 drive Addtronics ET6890 case with 300 watt PS Klipsch 4.1's w/16 guage mod speaker wires ala Radio Shack This message has been edited by gabriel11 on 06-09-2002 at 10:17 PM

Justin OI have purchased the adapter but have not used it...I am going to hook the speakers to an entirely different machine...and the test you are having me do with the portable cd player...fails to test the speakers in a "surround sound" mode. Remember I can adjust the distortion away in surround with a 4 speaker fader in Audigy or Turtle Beach mixer. But centered sounds awful...I think it's a surround sound issue..and hence prolly the amp.

I unplugged the wires from the soundcard and connected front first, then rear, directly to the portable cd player.

Thx Justin....there was also a question in that last post too...you seem fixated on that adapter.... JK.

Wrong plug Justin...but thx anyway...I have a Gateway PII 233...Win 98se and a CL Soundblaster Live Value card. That supports 4.1 doesn't it? Well, I'm going to dig it out of storage and give that a whirl as well...if I get bad 4 speaker sound then, can I assume it's the sub?

But what of the rest of my post???

Dang Justin...No Radio Shack part #? You're slipping Anyway I was confused about the mono y-adapter because of the speaker wire mod.... Doh! Anyway, if I try this and the sound is fine am I then to believe that it is absolutely NOT the speakers (sats or sub)? and that it must be a mobo problem... I have had this ASUS alittle over a year now and I have not updated the BIOS. Although I'm not sure if that would have any bearing on a problem such as this? Wouldn't it be more of a PCI slot problem, rather than the entire board?