Sound distortion at moderate to high volumes?

When I play any sound through the laptop's internal speakers it starts to echo/reverb at moderate to high volumes. How do I stop it?
The IDT High defnition audio CODEC is currently enabled with driver version 6.10.6319.0.
System effects are currenlty disabled.
The laptop is an HP Pavilion g6 Notebook .

Hi Jay... you're clearly the guru here since I see you do
most of the posts.
Actually it's just a video player - so no mic. and the sound
is more like a scratching & poping. It also doesn't happen the
first time the page with my player is displayed... only if I
refresh the page several times when connected to my local FMS.
However I tried to reproduce this on my web site with
Influxis FMS... and it doesn't seem to happen.
So, I've decided to not worry about this anymore - and assume
it's just some strange artifact with my local setup.
However I do thank you for your reply.
Cheers :)

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