Is it possible my speakers are just ya know...dying?
Posted by TheGamingTurret@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 16 comments
Ok so, I've thought about it and ? I've had these (good 'at the time' mind ) Bose speakers for, maybe 8 ish years. (I don't remember exactly when I bought them, but I've had them since slightly before my previous pc) I'm looking at newer speaker systems and I notice a lot of them don't use a power cord or the headphone jack. A lot of them just plug into the USB slot. My current PC is a tiny bit old (about 4 years) but I don't think that's the issue.
CtrlAltDesolate@reddit
More of a question for a speaker sub than a PC one tbh
TheGamingTurret@reddit (OP)
do you know of any that aren't a 'request to post' kind?
Level-Natural-3395@reddit
My Bose Soundbar suffered the same fate. One day sound quality was not right, fading, I powered off and never worked again.
Blue_Waffled@reddit
I don't understand what you mean with dying? You're not listing any issue with your current speakers, you're merely mentioning that you notice new speakers often lack a jack-in slot for headsets etc.
For starters, why do you think your speakers are dying?
Secondly, the presence of a powercord or jack-in for a headset on the speakers fully depends on what speakers you are looking at.
Thirdly, four years is not old.
TheGamingTurret@reddit (OP)
They're constantly fading in/out (and sometimes not playing sound at all) I've tried all the 'do it yourself' solutions to this (or most of them, discovered a few more to try today) I know why they do that sometimes on youtube (because youtube doesn't like add blockers, but I whitelisted Youtube and subscribed to youtube premium lite to resolve this, that seemed to fix the issue on that particular site for a bit.) but it happens on other software/sites too, especially pc games where it shouldn't be doing that.
Second the speakers are 8 years old, not 4, the current pc I have is 4 years old.
My monitor has two built in speakers but when I test them they don't play sound, and there's some other sound output device I don't know where or what it belongs to.
prank_mark@reddit
Stupid thing, but have you checked the cable? It sounds like the connection might be loose
TheGamingTurret@reddit (OP)
Just checked, here's what I noticed:
Not loose, if anything it's too 'sticky'/tight, Right speaker to the PC comes out and sticks in just fine, Left Speaker to main speaker is absolutely pretty tacky/sticky though. Maybe that's it?
RumbleTheCassette@reddit
Cheapest fix may be to get some replacement cables to try.
TheGamingTurret@reddit (OP)
They sell replacement cables for that? (This isn't me being a silly)
For now I'm trying the aux in suggestion and see if that fix sticks.
RumbleTheCassette@reddit
Depends on the type of cable but worth reaching out to the manufacturer, assuming it's some sort of proprietary cable. A lot of audio cables are just generic cables though and you may be able to find cheap replacements from all sorts of stores.
TheGamingTurret@reddit (OP)
I'll keep that in mind if something cable related happens to my current speakers.
OkSystem455@reddit
Bose model number?
TheGamingTurret@reddit (OP)
Don't know the exact model number, as in the actual # itself but the speakers are the Companion 2 Series 3.
OkSystem455@reddit
Going off of this: https://assets.bosecreative.com/m/50c008bab0930350/original/QSG_C2III-SPEAKERCOMPUTR_ml.pdf
So both speakers are fading in and out?
Same if just using the RIGHT unit?
Have you switch the PC to speaker cable to to RIGHT Speaker's AUX port? Or use a different cable?
The power brick was checked with a multimeter?
TheGamingTurret@reddit (OP)
Plugging the cable into the AUX port might have fixed it, will report back with test results.
SeveralAnxiousBirds@reddit
What exactly are you asking? I think you forgot to describe your issue.