Scratchy laptop speakers.

[LD]

It seemed to happen totally randomly. I was listening to videos and music fine, didn't listen to anything for a few hours, then I play something and my speakers have this scratchy, kettle drum sound for the loud and deep notes. I tried using my headphones and it seemed normal. It might be a hardware issues, but in the same boot, it went from perfect to horrible. I rebooted and it still had the issue. I read some stuff about potential conflicts and IRQs, but I'm afraid of jumping too far into that without more thoughts on the matter.

The sound is like someone talking too close to a mic.

[Gippo]

make/model of laptop? If your audio sounds fine out of your headphones , then its a hardware issue since sound is processed before it reaches your output device. Internal speakers for laptops are pretty cheap, but depending on what kind of laptop you have, it may be challenging finding just the speakers. Most are proprietary to the model, needing certain sizes/pin connections. Google it and see what you find, but keep in mind that you'll also have to do the work yourself unless you want to pay someone. Not too hard , but again, depends on the model.

course if its less than a year, rma that shit

[LD]

iirc, it's either exactly a year or like 2 weeks before.

Weird thing is, it seems to get better when I plug in my headphones then unplug them, though there's still a little bit of scratch at the low end. Prolly right though, hardware. If that's it, then I guess it's a matter of sending it back or doing it myself.

To put this in perspective, the main time it seems to happen is when I manually dismount in WoW. The dismount sound is this low, almost bass line. Everything else sounds fine.

[LD]

Still have the problem, it seems to ebb and flow, get better or worse randomly.

I have an Acer Aspire 5739G and read this thread, but it just confused the issue. I updated my drivers, and it seem to make it slightly better, but then it got worse again. I could try completely uninstalling realtek & nvidia, but I'm afraid of getting the same problem after reinstalling. The thread has stories about sending it back fixing nothing, the HDD being an issue, and having to go along with no video drivers, but I think I'd be happiest knowing what caused this in the first place.

Anyway, I'd like at least one more opinion before i take a course of action, probably uninstalling the drivers, since that would be the 'simplest' to do and then undo (maybe a rollback would fix it?).