A bass frequency to great, a bass frequency too unbalanced.

[charon17]

It seems I have a perculiar conflict here. I monitor my music by taking the line out of my comp passing it through two converters (a 1/8" to 1/4 then through a 1/4" to RCA) and plug it via standard RCA into the back of my shitty 20 year old Pioneer reciever, which powers my monitors (shelf top JBL Northwood blah). I've noticed that the left speaker gets way too much bass signal and ends up causing my sub to wobble, which kinda freaks me out sometimes. I switch the L/R channel on the RCA cable going into the reciever to find out it does the same thing for the Right speaker. THis leads me to believe my problem is not the reciever itself.. but I'm not quite sure. I've plugged my monitoring headphones directly into the sound card jack and everything seems to be panned out nicely, but the problem with this is that the bass signal is way to low to notice if the bass is still not correctly panned and thus identifying the problematic piece of gear as my soundcard. So two possible culprits here are my reciever and my soundcard.. (the soundcard is shit, but not too shitty - Yamaha SYG20) Does anyone have any idea what the heck is going on, or what I should do to correct this nuisance?

Thank you for yaws help

Charon

 

[Das]

soundcard

if you really want to test the soundcard, go to windows volume control, and advanced properties under master volume, then crank the bass all the way up, and listen in the headphones again. then you should be able to hear it in order to determine if that's the problem.