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Old 22nd Jan 2009, 1:35 pm
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Default Re: VERY bad sound quality

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Originally Posted by kidcasino";p=&quot View Post
All music sounded as though it was slower than usual and any voices (singing or talking) sound as though someone is gargaling underwater.
I've seen (er, heard) this before Almost certainly the GND conection in the earphone jack is loosen or not soldered well. That makes the sound weird, like listening trough a Mario-bros pipe, or underwater like you say.


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Originally Posted by kidcasino";p=&quot View Post
This problem only seems to happen when headphones are plugged in. When I listen through the internal speaker, it sounds fine.
And this confirms your problem. You simply hit the jackpot on a not well assembled unit lol... if you can, open it and see the soldering of the earphone jack, maybe the GND pad is broken or bad soldered (it's the one colsest to the board edge).



OR, chances are that your earphone's jack (and the one that came with the player) doesn't insert fully into the player, and does not make good contact at all... also seen this before too.
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