Hi Forum,
I've just re-built my desktop machine as its internals were 12 years old and really showing their age.
"New" system is ...................
Asus mobo P4C800-e deluxe, intel P4 3GHz, ati radeon 9600xt vid. card, SB 0570 sound card, Win XP.
Everything clapped together no bother so I started into some testing and hit this very strange sound problem.
Voices / vocals are missing - actually they are there but VERY faint - you need full volume to make them out but if music is also there, vocals are impossible to hear.
It's just as if there was a mid-range filter in operation - frequencies either side of voice range are normal. There is also a bit of a reverb. effect.
Sound system is a basic 2 speaker system - always checked when doing tests.
i.e. no 5.1 switched on.
I've tried removing the sound card and using the on-board chip (an Analog Devices AD1985 device) - no difference.
I've tried 2 different Win XP installations (SP1 and SP3) - no difference.
I've tried Win media player, VLC media player and GOM media player - no difference.
I'm running out of ideas here - anyone help with this ?
Many thanks,
jrmch
I've just re-built my desktop machine as its internals were 12 years old and really showing their age.
"New" system is ...................
Asus mobo P4C800-e deluxe, intel P4 3GHz, ati radeon 9600xt vid. card, SB 0570 sound card, Win XP.
Everything clapped together no bother so I started into some testing and hit this very strange sound problem.
Voices / vocals are missing - actually they are there but VERY faint - you need full volume to make them out but if music is also there, vocals are impossible to hear.
It's just as if there was a mid-range filter in operation - frequencies either side of voice range are normal. There is also a bit of a reverb. effect.
Sound system is a basic 2 speaker system - always checked when doing tests.
i.e. no 5.1 switched on.
I've tried removing the sound card and using the on-board chip (an Analog Devices AD1985 device) - no difference.
I've tried 2 different Win XP installations (SP1 and SP3) - no difference.
I've tried Win media player, VLC media player and GOM media player - no difference.
I'm running out of ideas here - anyone help with this ?
Many thanks,
jrmch