-=PCTechTalk=- Re: THE Sound Problem From Dante's Inferno Revisited
- From: Walter Boswell <saxyman70@xxxxxxxx>
- To: PCTechTalk <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 17:10:27 -0500
Oh! Well, so much for making value judgments by way of rhetorical contrast and
comparison. You got me there, Mr. Reckless. I was thinking things actually did
go better with Bush. The more fool I, I guess. At least old George wasn't so
arrogant and narcissistic that he talked himself right into a one-term
Presidency.
I'll make your point with Best Buy in the morning when I go there to settle
this issue once and for whatever.
Walt
> From: recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: THE Sound Problem From Dante's Inferno Revisited
> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 17:33:07 -0400
>
> Well, Obama after Bush was a dramatic improvement so I hope your new after
> distorted is also an improvement. I just wonder if the problem might be
> related to buffering the audio/video stream.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Boswell
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 4:41 PM
> To: PCTechTalk
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- THE Sound Problem From Dante's Inferno Revisited
>
>
> I hope a few list folks remember me and my never ending case. I need a few
> suggestions, if for nothing else but my general psychological well-being
> about the way my problem has progressed, or rather digressed, as it were.
>
> As you might recall, whenever I played a CD, DVD, downloaded music file,
> online video or recording, Internet radio site or .wav sound bite, after a
> short while I would get a sudden distortion of the music which sounded
> rather like a dragging phonograph record and/or a badly scratched vinyl
> recording. The distortion would soon stop but it always came back, on and
> off, throughout the entire length of the recording. I took the computer
> tower back to Best Buy where I bought it just nine short months ago in
> December 2010 and they eventually sent it off to the Geek Squad repair store
> in Louisville, KY where the Geek Agents replaced the motherboard and
> returned the computer to me yesterday. I thought all was well until I
> decided to play my all-time favorite version of ?Yea, Alabama? (just to pump
> myself up for the big game Saturday) and discovered?my great horror that the
> distortion was STILL there. I take it as a good thing that I sold my Glock
> some time ago.
>
> Now, this thing has turned into one deuce of a mind boggling morass. The
> Geek Cops tried replacing the sound card (nothing doing!), the speakers
> (ditto!), and finally the motherboard itself (the music still sounds like
> Jimmy Carter in the outhouse). I even did my N?awlins, LA Lady Marmalade
> cross-dressing voodoo vamp and mojo boogie. I finally downloaded Real Player
> thinking that my Windows Media Player might have been the victim of a
> hacking most foul and that Microsoft itself was the culprit--the sand in the
> Royal Jelly, so to speak. Nope...same results?Coltrane was still in drag,
> Sonny Rollins too, and Ella Fitzgerald sounded like she was scat dancing
> through a mine field. What to do? What to do? Well, I called Best Buy again.
> At this point, I think they plan to just swap out my computer tower out for
> another of similar statue. Will that solve my problem? Who knows! We got
> Obama after Bush, didn?t we?
>
> Walt
>
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