How To: Fix Ur Speakers

Not really. I don't know how to fix speakers or anything so technical as that. Alls I know is that my speakers were picking up the radio signals of an NPR station. This is a common problem on Capitol Hill where the radio towers are a useful navigational point.

It's not that I don't like NPR, but I don't listen to the radio. I listen to podcasts... from NPR. It's pretty funny when I would be listening to NPR podcasts and be annoyed by the buzzing undercurrent of other NPR commentators muttering in the quiet moments, or speaking over each other. I doubt very many people on Capitol Hill actually listen to the radio either.

It was explained to me that something in my speakers isn't 'grounded', all I could do was buy newer speakers that would be grounded. Me? Buy something? I got these speakers out of the free pile, I don't see any other speakers in the free pile. Another friend mentioned that tinfoil would block the radio waves and shelter the speakers from picking it up. I kept questioning him and he got more unsure. "You've done this? It works? Does it keep the aliens out as well?"

"I think you may have to cover the wires as well, something is picking up the radio waves"

I wasn't sure if he was just messing with me, seeing how much of my room I would cover in tinfoil rather than buy new speakers. I concede that that would be pretty funny. He also just could have answered just to give me an answer. I'm pretty sure that's what he did, he had heard something about tinfoil blocking radio signals, but he had never done it himself.

I would try. I had just bought a large roll of tinfoil at the Cost and Carry, had a few hours free and was ready to procrastinate.

Here are the photos of my finished work:




That shelf is made of two milk crates stacked on top of each other, the bass speaker is inside it. I made a little door using duct tape that opens fairly easily. I went to far as to cover all the wires that connect the speakers to each other, as well the one that connects the speakers to the computer, but I only covered a little bit of the cord which connects the speakers to the power supply.

I can't believe it really works. The voices are gone!! I can listen to my podcasts and my music at any volume, unmolested by ghosts in the air. Every so often they creep in, almost as if leaving the speakers on makes the ghosts louder. But turning the speakers off and back on seems to work.

and yes, it looks ridiculous and protects me from aliens.