Sound Enhancer Causes Distortion

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Sound Enhancer Causes Distortion

Recently, I found that a number of songs in my iTunes library sound distorted in certain parts. When I disable Sound Enhancer, the distortion disappears. Unfortunately, it returns when I re-enable Sound Enhancer. This may be a bug in iTunes 8. I don't remember this problem occurring in earlier versions.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a workaround?

Mac Pro 3.0, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 4GB RAM

Posted on Feb 16, 2009 11:37 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 17, 2009 4:43 PM in response to Hersco

Oh my goodness! I actually thought my speakers were dying because the vocals sounded so faded out when I listened to anything on iTunes but the audio was great on my iPod. Especially the new Coldplay album. I thought, this doesn't sound right? Then I noticed in the last month that when I listened to music through Myspace everything sounded 'normal' again. I just did a search on the forum and came across the sound enhancer problem. It really is that darn sound enhancer! I disabled it and everything sounds perfect again. I'm so happy, I almost bought new speakers. lol

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Answer 2

Feb 22, 2009 2:14 PM in response to Hersco

Holy cow, thanks for the tip on this. My entire music library has sounded distorted for the longest time (yes since long before iTunes 8), and I already went through at least 2 rounds of speakers.

But I have a nice set of Logitech THX surround speakers which sound great, and now that I play lots of DVDs on my speakers, as well as watch TV shows through EyeTV, the sound is incredible. I came to realize that the distortion only occurs via iTunes, not via my speakers.

So I searched online and found your post. Turned off Sound Enhancer and distortion is gone! Wow, thanks for this!

Sorry I am not answering your question but I like the way it sounds without this so-called "enhancer."

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