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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything > below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > OR > To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to > pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. 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