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Rear right speaker bias

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Limp Gawd
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So, I have an X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro and a set of old Klipsch Promedia 4.1's.

Lately in certain games I've noticed a distinct bias in terms of audio in the rear speakers. Sound still comes out of my rear left speaker, but it sounds like positional 3D audio where stuff will be louder on one side of the other depending on where your character is / where your camera is oriented, but it's like it's bugged into thinking stuff is *always* oriented towards the right side.

I've tried swapping speaker cables, swapping speakers, maxing rear left speaker volume, uninstalling, cleaning, updating and reinstalling Creative drivers (and yeah I know how much they suck but I'm still hoping there's a fix) with nothing fixing the problem.

Also only seems to happen or is noticeable in Guild Wars 2 and Diablo 3 (not that I play the latter anymore but I figure it's useful knowing it happens in more than one game).

Anyone heard of anything like this before?
 
If you do a speaker test, the speaker works fine normally? Just wondering if you have a blow speaker or rotted cable.
 
Yeah, it does work properly, and as mentioned I also swapped it with the cable from the other rear speaker, and then swapped the other speaker itself. No combination gave me any better results. :(
 
Can have to do with speaker placement. Your room can have a massive effect on frequency response. If the right speaker is near reflective boundries and the left is not, that can do it.
 
Sycraft said:
Can have to do with speaker placement. Your room can have a massive effect on frequency response. If the right speaker is near reflective boundries and the left is not, that can do it.
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Well, the speakers have been in this placement for four years and I've never noticed this until now, and only happens in specific games. But I also tested them side by side and it definitely sounded like more sound was coming out of one of them.

EDIT: The effect isn't subtle either, it's pretty overwhelming.
 
Well then an amp/preamp/etc is going bad. Replace them with something new.
 
All I have is the sound card and speakers set.

Might be able to get Creative to replace the sound card if I can prove it's the cause, but I thought it would be software related since it only happens in two games?
 
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