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amitech travel::I think i might dream things at times.
Anyway, today after work i took the bus downtown, bought the dvds, and then took another bus back home.
I magically arrived at the bus stops, both at home and downtown, about thirty seconds before my bus, there was no queue at the store so it all went like a breeze.
Too good to be true?
There is nothing playing on the box, the dvds are safe in their cover, still i can hear a very distinct background noise.
For no particular reason there is now a constant blur of white noise coming from the speakers.
I wiggled the audio cables and if they are pushed up, the sound almost disappears.
But there is nothing wrong with the cables, as one might expect: i plugged a couple of headphones directly into the line out on the sound card and the white noise can be heard there, too.