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I use my ASUS laptop for DJing. While playing music, at random times (sometimes once…twice…sometimes it don’t), a random low distortion muffles the sounds of the songs for about 3-5 seconds and then it is done. I have checked everything from the output through the rest of my set-up and the problem isdefinitely coming from the laptop somehow. Thoughts!?!?! thanks! Wayne
Are you connecting your sound gear to the headphone output on the laptop? If you are using the headphone out on the laptop it is highly likely you are picking up RF Interference. It has been quite some time since I have owned a non-Apple laptop but all the non-Apple laptops I have ever had, I would never directly connect to pro audio gear. All of them had significant noise that was audible when the sound card was active, and became even more noticeable when using good headphones. If your laptop has Bluetooth, try pairing it with a wireless BT speaker. If you get the same distortion from the BT speaker, then something in the computer is affecting the audio digitally before it gets to the DAC or the Bluetooth chip. I don’t know how well USB audio cards for laptops work, but even a SoundBlaster Audigy ZS PCMCIA card exhibited some of the same interference I got from the on-board sound, most notably a repeated rapid deet-deet-deet-deet-(pause) that was always present while connected to AC power. Assuming this is coming from interference in the laptop, something that offers a purely digital output that connects to a standalone DAC would probably be the best bet Something like this: https://smile.amazon.com/VAlinks-Externa… combined with this: https://smile.amazon.com/Lowpricenice-Di… might solve the problem. Not an endorsement of these products they’re just what I found with a quick search of amazon.
