Guys my computer speakers pick up a radio station. I don't know why. It's faint but annoying. It's worse when I have my headphones plugged in.

Mine pick up something as well, but It's not loud enough for me to tell what it is.

That's just the Federal mind-control station. Just ignore it and everything will be fine.

is this an intermittent thing? like it sounds like an ad once in a while? i had this problem once. turned out AIM was streaming ads to itself with audio. and because i was running DeadAIM (which disables the ad banner) so although i couldn't SEE the ad, i heard the ad.

i thought it was picking up audio from my TV tuner card at the time. it does sound a lot like a radio station

but as far as i know they don't do it anymore

No it's an actual radio station. I hear them say the station, it's like 89.7 or something. It's not coming from the computer.

There is not a whole lot you can do about it, unless you want to take the time to shield all of your speaker wiring. When I was living to the east of the university a few years ago, we'd pick up stations all the time. Currently my cell phone is the issue since it makes periodic powerful rf transmissions which make my speakers go insane.

Cell phones fuck with unshielded speakers like there's no tomorrow. I work in the VCC (Video Communication Center) and we put on video classrooms and all that, and sometimes, a student will leave their cell phone on but have the ringer turned off. Like last Thursday night. Some guy was text messaging in class, and it was making my little booth damn near explode. Have speakers all around, and they were all popping and buzzing. Is annoying as all hell.

My roommate's cell phone rings softly, but I can always tell when it's ringing because my speakers go ape

Wow, I just heard a 7up commercial loud and clear in the middle of watching the bookshop sketch of Monty Python's Flying Circus on my PC. I went back in the video and it wasn't there. First time I've ever heard TV come through loud and clear.

My speakers go apeshit about 2 seconds before my cell phone rings. Kind of a pre-ring, ring. If I move my cell away from the speakers, it stops.

see if you were comp sci you could tear off some of the tinfoil keeping the sun out and rap that shiz around your cables. jk i doubt that will work i should just shut up and put the my tinfoil back on the window where it keeps out any interference from the sun or the "day people" in my gaming

about the cell phone shit, my roommate a couple years ago had a nokia phone that would always run an interference, but it sounded more like it was coming from my monitor than it did my speakers. i have a sprint samsung phone and have never experienced this at all

You should notice that if you turn your cell phone parrallel to the speakers that go "apeshit" a loud noise will occur quite frequently , however, if you face your cell perpendicular to the speaker, this shouldn't make your speaker go "apeshit" as much . Try it, and see if this holds true. It may not, but it works with my Nokia 3595, and my Nokia 3600 that I use to have .

I also get this "apeshit" sound in my car... maybe the cell phone companies are trying to send subliminal* messages to all of us.

there is a radio tower (of some sort, don't know radio/tv/cell) right on the roof of the north tower. they did some maintenance on it to boost its power or something last year, and after that my computer speakers (and many on 7N) became nearly unusable. unshielded, they would have a constant buzzing so loud that you could hear it down the hall with my door closed. of course, it was hard to tell because everyone elses speakers were buzzing the same way. it started the day they finished work, and hadn't happened before that.

after over a pound of aluminum foil over every inch of speaker wire, the buzzing was down to the point that i could hear music sometimes, but i still left them off almost all the time. after i moved off campus i set my computer up the exact same way and there's NO interference at all, so don't try to tell me it's my speaker wires getting too close to my monitor or power cords or something.

there has to be some sort of bad health effect from being so close to such a powerful transmitter.

if i can't have kids, i'm going to sue TJ.

Or you could just move to the quad...