9400 speakers -- slowly blowing out?

play mp3s or videos through the notebook speakers, and everything sounds find for about 45 minutes. after that, distortion creeps in and builds until it is noticable in everything that is played. doesn't matter what kind of music -- even "soft" music picks it up.

come back hours later, or the boot-up next day, and same deal: everything's fine for a time and then it gets mildly crappy sounding.

i never play crank the volume on anything, either. volume is at 2 right now; wave at 5. no matter how i adjust both, still pick up distortion after a while.

what gives? do these speakers eventually totally just go? anyone notice this?

 

when you say distorted, do you mean that the song doesn't play at the same speed/sound quality?
if so, two things:
do you have NHC?
what program do you use to play the mp3s?

 

what's NHC?

using WMP ... songs play at the same speed, but sound quality is off.

 

WMP has been known to have problems
NHC is NotebookHardWareControl
Download it and the next time you use WMP to play mp3s check NHC to see if your system is using alot of resources. if it is, do ctrl alt del and see which program from the processes tab is using a ton of reasorces, If it's WMP, then it's the programs fault, if not, them maybe a driver or perhaps the speakers themselves.

 

A truely blown speaker will sound bad all the time, not after a certain amount of use, in addition to phillips suggestions, I would also try a different player, does this only happen with music? Are video playback, games, normal app sounds unaffected?

 

got it narrowed down. mp3s ONLY. playing cds + flics from WMP is fine.

so i think it's something to do with XP Codec Pack i installed -- everything was groovy until that point, as i'm trying to recall now. it's as though gain is increased a little bit over time until distortion happens.

edit: and guess what? play mp3s until distortion builds. then play a CD. mp3s play normal. strange. all in WMP.

 

Easy fix could be as simple as finding a new player. Are you running any media player enhancements?, you might want to try disabling then if you are.

 

no enhancements ... but i'm thinking that instead of installing all those codecs, i should have picked through them a bit.

thanks for your help, people. better software than hardware!