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Dead Headphones

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Spanky:
Kind of a follow-up on my previous thread. I am messing around with my audio settings just mostly for fun and since I had no equalizer preset on. I went into the Cutoff Frequency in the Low Shelf Filter and I heard that for iPods it is best to set this to 20. Well I scrolled up to 20 and must have slipped or something and it went back down to the bottom to 22040hz and I hit ok. Well now my headphones give out a pretty nice deafening screech out of the left ear. I think I blew them. I think a warning somewhere would be a good idea. Also is there anything else that I should not go near? I'm not really pissed I just think this is pretty comical that I blew my first speaker :D

*EDIT* Scratch this whole thing, something in my settings must be doing this, movie playback is fine and doesn't deliver an ear piercing sound.

*EDIT* I wiped the config files again and it works fine. If other people agree, my suggestion would be to put a warning or something when editing the equalizer properties cuz my ear is still ringing from this episode. At least I still have headphones.

safetydan:
I've fixed the equalizer (and a few other settings) so they don't wrap. This should prevent these sorts of accidents in future.

baobab68:
And that's why they call him 'safetydan'.   :-)

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