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ghostdawg

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From: USA

Registered: 2016-09-19

Posts: 69

Muffled Sound

The sound from my speakers on my desktop system are muffled. You can hear it but its more like you were in the room next door or something covering the speakers. I've played around with alsamixer and the sliders but no change. It's using the internal HDA Intel sound card.

Any ideas/suggestions?

$ sudo lshw -C multimedia
  *-multimedia           
       description: Audio device
       product: 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1b
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
       version: 02
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
       resources: irq:51 memory:f7adc000-f7adffff

$ sudo lspci -v
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Dell Device 027f
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 51
    Memory at f7adc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
    Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
    Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

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bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,303

Re: Muffled Sound

Just a thought - is it the same with the speakers plugged in to either sound port? I'm guessing the machine has a front and rear connections.

Is there any chance it is using the earphone volume setting?

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,989

Re: Muffled Sound

Also you could check the speakers are plugged in fully, I have had times where this has happened and it was due to the connection not being fully inserted.

ghostdawg

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From: USA

Registered: 2016-09-19

Posts: 69

Re: Muffled Sound

Thanks for the reply guys. It was the woofer that wasn't plugged in completely. Those darn kids be kicking it. It sits on the floor.

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Dell Optiplex 760 - Quad Core | 4gb | 250gb | Mageia 5, Salix 14.2, Q4OS
Lenovo Thinkpad T420 | 4gb | 120gb | Mageia 5, Debian Testing

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,989

Re: Muffled Sound

Kids eh! Love em, but couldn't eat a whole one