Audio problem: Strange "watereffect" when balancing audiolevel to centre.

I listen to music on my G5 a lot, using a headphone.
Recently my G5 started to make strange noises when playing audio files over iTunes.
It sounded a bit like your were listening to music under water. I looked at the sound preferences, I found something strange: in the output settings are the balance settings for a device. When i set these to extreme left or extreme right the sound seems to be alright (it sound like mono over my headphones but still both channels produce sound...) When i set the settings to the middle the "water noise" effect comes in. The sound is all distorted. My headset seems to be alright. I'am not sure if this is system, itunes or maybe quicklime related is. I haven't installes new software that i can remember and making an new account doesn't seem to improve the soundqaulity. Does any of you have had the problem before?

Jaky07IT,
Have you run the updates for your install of Snow Leopard? If not run the following.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
Have you tried other headsets other than the iPhone? The iPhone has a 4 conducter conector, as opposed to a regular set which has 3. (the 4th is for the microphone on the iPhone set).
Also try a NV/pram reset.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

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