help ! brand new sb live distortion atrocious !

ARGH!
i just bought a brand spankin new SB live! 5.1
and its really screwed up. it detects just fine,
but sounds distorted, and MONO !!!
all outputs are momo, and not only that, but they're
reverse-polarity, so when i plug em into an amp,
nothing comes out but DC current. almost blew a tweeter!
when i switch its mixer to mono, i get undistorted sound
in headphones. WHAT THE **** ?
Has anyone encountered this ?
help me please, i really like this card
and dont want to go back to my sb16.

On 11 Oct 2003 18:46:54 -0700, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs (Forgnog
Zambrucken) wrote :

ARGH!
i just bought a brand spankin new SB live! 5.1
and its really screwed up. it detects just fine,
but sounds distorted, and MONO !!!
all outputs are momo, and not only that, but they're
reverse-polarity, so when i plug em into an amp,
nothing comes out but DC current. almost blew a tweeter!
when i switch its mixer to mono, i get undistorted sound
in headphones. WHAT THE **** ?
Has anyone encountered this ?
help me please, i really like this card
and dont want to go back to my sb16.

Not enough info.
What O/S.
What PCI slots used.
Post FULL hardware spec including mother board make and model.



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On 11 Oct 2003 18:46:54 -0700, (Forgnog Zambrucken)
wrote:

ARGH!
i just bought a brand spankin new SB live! 5.1
and its really screwed up. it detects just fine,
but sounds distorted, and MONO !!!
all outputs are momo, and not only that, but they're
reverse-polarity, so when i plug em into an amp,
nothing comes out but DC current. almost blew a tweeter!

DC voltage wouldn't get anywhere near a tweeter due to the low pass
filter in the speaker's crossover.

when i switch its mixer to mono, i get undistorted sound
in headphones. WHAT THE **** ?

maybe it's broken? return it for a new one.

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