Ahh!! Ghost in my machine.

Mysteriously my distorted sound issue disappeared on its own along with my center and rear channels. Whats up with that ?

check your audio settings
start, control pannel, sounds and audio devices
under speaker settings click advance and select your speaker type
under the audio tab make sure your sound card is selected in default device
click advanced and select the speaker type
ok everything

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Thanks for posting about your conundrum and its solution.
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I think my mac is haunted.
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Greetings?
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Weird. I have the sneaking suspicion that the
AppleTV is being activated via the Internet?????
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required.
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Just try this for yourself.
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