Strange Voices Coming from speakers

Terra

This is a bit weird, I have my speakers plugged into my pc, and my pc is on. Now I'm not playing any sounds whatsoever, but I can here what sounds like a foreign radio station coming true on them very faintly....

Has anyone ever come accross this ?

Basq

"Ye Germans are coming!!"

On a more serious note.... nope, never heard of that!

Tivoli

probably a radio transmitter nearby

the audio cable are probably working as a ariel, most cables connecting to a pc have a choke (just a wider lump near the end) to filter this out, try and get an audio cable with these chokes on each end, this will stop the noise and make the pc more reialble, radio signals would not do the pc anygood

please note i have just made all the above up, but it kinda makes sense, so give it a try

koneko

Yeah it sounds like it's just picking up radio stations, it happens.

SheroN

Take a look at this:-
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=179173

!!!

:rolleyes:

Sleipnir

Just do whatever these voices are telling you to......

BadCharlie

I think its Ghostys living in your house and there just trying to talk to you.

Azza

Yeah happened to me before on my old speaker system. Every now and then they would pick up mobile phone conversations and taxi radio transmissions. Was quite weird to be playing Max Payne and suddenly have a conversation about whats for dinner coming threw my speakers.

Lozjm

Have u been smoking today ?

OfflerCrocGod

Happens all the time on my speakers it's too faint to figure out what they are actually saying though.

Terra

Well it just happend last night for the first time....just seemed strange....it definetly sounded like a foreign radio station...

I have Altec lansing 995 speakers...there fairly powerfull, 5.1 but the sound only came through the front speaker....

Too faint to make out what was said...well that and the fact it was in a strange language. I couldn't make out what language it was.

maxheadroom

Terra wrote:

Well it just happend last night for the first time....just seemed strange....it definetly sounded like a foreign radio station...

I have Altec lansing 995 speakers...there fairly powerfull, 5.1 but the sound only came through the front speaker....

Too faint to make out what was said...well that and the fact it was in a strange language. I couldn't make out what language it was.

did you extend the speaker cables in any way? If you did using unshielded wire it can turn the whole system into an AM receiver.

Terra

I didn't extend the cables. but I will check them out, will picking up radio stations like that damage the speakers or computer ?

fragile

Oh, I know this, record it and play it back in reverse...

The truth is out there

duridian

I doubt this will do any harm to your pc. Your speakers just probably don't have a filter choke as suggested above, so AM transmissions will be picked up now and again. This phenomenon is also common in electric guitars with single coil pickups, usually resolved by fitting a capacitor (unless of course you like jamming to Radio Moscow's World Service). The choke thingies are also seen on things like computer keyboards(usually inside of the keyboard though), on game controllers (eg. the cylindrical things around the wire close to the part of a PS2 controller which plugs into the console)

Celt

I used to get what sounded like a spanish radio station on my old cheap speakers, late at night.

wet-paint

I get it too, it's the same volume no matter how high you turn the speakers.

Just ignore it, or if it bothers you, aye, get a filter choke.

aligator_am

yeah that happens on my guitar amp, if i loop the lead from one port to the other i can pick up 2fm! weird, but once it's low then it shouldn't be noticable, just turn the speakers off if you're now using them.

Tivoli

if you still hear voices after fitting the filter choke, call a priest

Krusty_Clown

Terra wrote:

well that and the fact it was in a strange language. I couldn't make out what language it was.

It could be worse.
It could be Larry Gogan.

BHG

Ireland has left the medium wave 2FM closed in Dec'03 April'04 and Radio1 is
off MW until Nov'04

The speakers on your PC are picking up a strong am/mw signal (not Radio1 on 252LW) from europe. This should mean that the voices/signal should fade in and out, if not, perhaps your are getting Radio Deutsche Welle (DW) from NTL cable system (101.1FM in Dublin) as this would be the only non English/irish channel from NTL( http://www.ntl.com/locales/ie/en/athome/frequency.html )

simple solutions might be move the speaker wires, if currently north/south
change them to east/west unless they are vertical that is. Get an empty 35mm Film casing and wrap the wire around it twice or more and tape it up, do this on the end of the wire near the PC about 4-6 inches from the end.

Hope this helps, we used to get Radio Moscow and Radio Nova on the headsets in the language lab in school (c1982), depending on how much earthing was applied to the mouth piece by the thumb.... I failed French got an A in science. C'est La Vie³.

Fenster

I used to have that happen here way bac. I live next to the main road and I used to pick up mobile phone conversations.