Very Sudden Noise From Nowhere On You Tube

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Dr Varney

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This has happened a couple of times now and it's a complete mystery to me.

I'm listening to a video or music on YouTube and suddenly, a load of white noise rips through on my speakers, making me jump out of my skin and sh*t my pants.

What is the most likely cause of this? I've never had this problem before, it's only happened a few times in the last two weeks, but it is so horrible that I am now wary of going on Youtube. It's very loud. Could it damage my amp or speakers? :mad:
 
AMD, something or other... 64. 2GB Ram. It never happened whilst this machine was using the E=MU 0404 sound card, which I've put into the music studio computer now. That computer isn't connected to the internet but this one is and I've used a no-name outboard USB sound interface; a box I bought from Maplins UK for use with my laptop in the days before I had the E=MU.

Now, you'll probably say it's the sound card/ interface that's at fault. But this has only ever happened with You Tube - and it's sporadic. Not like a running fault, as it were. There aren't any drivers that can be updated - those came on a disc. The soundcard doesn't have a name, so no website for updating drivers.

Troubleshooting is difficult because of the physical installation. The internet terminal (this machine) uses a long USB extension to the sound interface box, then connects into the patchbay on the other side of the room on a long audio lead over to where the music set up is. The patchbay then connects directly to the amp (vintage NAD 3020) and speakers. I've never owned a pair of desktop PC speakers.

Could it be the sound card stumbles and shuts off momentarily because of a drop in power over the length of the USB extension or something like that?

My thought is to try another graphics card - this time, an internal one of a much higher spec than the USB interface and patch it directly using audio lead. I think I have some among my old parts stash in the loft somewhere...
 
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Dr Varney said:
This has happened a couple of times now and it's a complete mystery to me.

I'm listening to a video or music on YouTube and suddenly, a load of white noise rips through on my speakers, making me jump out of my skin and sh*t my pants.

What is the most likely cause of this? I've never had this problem before, it's only happened a few times in the last two weeks, but it is so horrible that I am now wary of going on Youtube. It's very loud. Could it damage my amp or speakers? :mad:
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Did you replay the music clip or video to see if the noise came back.....it might be the actual file from youtube that has recorded this interference and not your hardware.
if you have a decent sound system it should not harm it.
 
Well, it doesn't seem to be recorded on the video. Actually, I have isolated ONE thing. It occurs with HD (HQ sound) videos for some reason. It first happened halfway through the video. I stopped it and started it again. Closed the browser - then rebooted the system. Then the problem occured the second after I restarted the video. The best description I can give is, that it's random. Definitely not anything recorded into the video soundtrack itself, as it happens at any point during playback.
 
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