Posted by Kromey at 9:05pm Apr 28 '13I'm having an issue with my computer's nice 5.1 speakers. The front left speaker will occasionally cut out, only to (an unpredictable amount of time later) seemingly recover, producing a series of pops and distorted audio for a second or two and then operating as if nothing ever happened.
This is incredibly -- surprisingly -- disorienting when it cuts out like this, especially to someone who's had issues with one ear or another and as a result is now almost a hypochondriac when it comes to my hearing.
My plan is to find one of the rear speakers (it's a 5.1 system, but I only have 3.1 plugged in right now, the rear speakers being packed away still somewhere I think) and swap out the troublesome speaker, to see if the speaker itself is the issue or not, but I also want to hear if anyone else has any other ideas on what's going on. I can already confirm that this is almost certainly not a software issue: The issue presents itself in both Linux and Windows, with no discernible difference between the two OSes (insofar as the audio issue goes, of course).
Weird speaker issue - Kromey