Speakers Hissing/Crackling

[Hezron]

Hey,

I have had my PC speakers for a long time now, around 3 years. And in the past week they have started making unusual crackling/hissing sounds, it's hard to place the sound in words exactly. But it seems to have come from nowhere, I have checked all the cables and cleaned the speakers to the best of my ability, even opened them up and given them a blast of air to get rid of any dirt in the volume controls but nothing seems to help.

I have managed to narrow down the problem to the 'main speaker' (the one with the workings for volume, bass & treble inside) I disconnected every cable apart from the power, and it still crackle/hissed. Furthermore, when I connect the other speaker so that sound can go through both, they both crackle. It is really confusing me. The amount of noise produced doesn't change with the volume or if music is played or not, it does it totally randomly.

The strangest part is, with the speakers making the crackling sound I turned on a song with a lot of bass, put the bass setting to max and turned the speakers up, a strange sound came from them and they stopped cracking completely. This isn't a permanent fix, after some time it eventually starts making sounds again.

If it helps I am using these speakers: http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/creativ...92098-pdt.html

Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for any help given.

[naadra]

I would say it is the wires. Try twisting turning etc the speaker wires etc while it is hissing etc and see if it changes at all. Same thing on the input where it plugs in move it around a little bit where it connects at and see if the noise changes at all. Just my guess though )P

Edit: only reason I am guessing this, is when I used to install stereo systems, bad wires would cause a hissing crackling noise to come from the speakers a lot. You could not of course see a split or anything in the wire, but some where in the wiring it was bad.

[conaan]

do you have any new wireless devices near it? my old speakers would pick up on my cellphone and do the same style of sound randomly

[Ummagummas]

It could also mean that your connection from the wire to the speaker is also going bad. I'm talking about the connection inside the speaker itself. If you know how to solder, see if the connection is losing its solder connection and re solder it.

[Hezron]

It could also mean that your connection from the wire to the speaker is also going bad. I'm talking about the connection inside the speaker itself. If you know how to solder, see if the connection is losing its solder connection and re solder it.

Maybe, I don't have anything to solder things with sadly, and I feared it might be something like that. :l

do you have any new wireless devices near it? my old speakers would pick up on my cellphone and do the same style of sound randomly

Nope, nothing wireless near it.

I would say it is the wires. Try twisting turning etc the speaker wires etc while it is hissing etc and see if it changes at all. Same thing on the input where it plugs in move it around a little bit where it connects at and see if the noise changes at all. Just my guess though )P

Edit: only reason I am guessing this, is when I used to install stereo systems, bad wires would cause a hissing crackling noise to come from the speakers a lot. You could not of course see a split or anything in the wire, but some where in the wiring it was bad.

I did have a play with the wires, but nothing seemed to stop the noise, they could be going bad but they've never been moved since I bought them.

Thanks for the replies. :P

[naadra]

I was looking to see if some other people had a similar problem, only thing I found was a few other posts stating "after three years they started crackling" hehe. Maybe it is just the end of the line for them !

[Hezron]

Maybe so, typical really. Things like this always break when you have no money to replace them, lol. :l

[Deleted]

my router does this to my subwoofer. extremely annoying so i feel your pain. hope someone has some ideas!

[Hezron]

*moves my speaker away from the phone connection to the wall*

I wonder..

If this is the cause of my problem I am going to facepalm so hard my hand will go through my head.