[KLUG Members] CDROM audio question.

[Patrick Stockton]

Listen to the pitch of the hiss.  If the pitch increases as a CD spins up
then it's picking up electrical interfearance from the motor of the CD-Rom
drive.

I fixed this once by just moving the sound card from one slot to another, if
this is an option I'd check that out.

A lot of it depends on if you are connecting the CD-Rom to a sound card or
to the motherboard with an integrated sound card.

Last thing, if she is using windows, go in to the CD-Rom setting for media
player or what ever she's using to listen to cd's and have it switch over to
using digital instaed of analog.  That'll most likely solve the problem.

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Smith" <bruce@armintl.com>
To: "KLUG" <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 11:00 AM
Subject: [KLUG Members] CDROM audio question.


> Someone I know had the CDROM drive replaced in her
> computer at work.  Now when she listens to a music CD
> there is a loud hissing noise in the background.
> (it sounded perfect before)
>
> Her PC "tech support" person told them that it was
> because the new CD drive was faster than their old one.
> (52X vs. 8X) and the new / faster drives spin faster and
> don't work as well for music CD's.  (and won't replace it)
>
> I've never heard anything like that before.  Is this true
> by chance, or is the techie giving her a line of bull?
>
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> Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
> System Administrator / Network Administrator
> Armstrong International, Inc.
> Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
> http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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