# Home Audio -  Sound Suddenly Tinny

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-audio-sound-suddenly-tinny/267138>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 2, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-audio-sound-suddenly-tinny/267138 "2004-10-02T02:44:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![larsenmtl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@larsenmtl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/larsenmtl)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-audio-sound-suddenly-tinny/267138/1 "2004-10-02T02:44:42Z")

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Dopers,

First, here’s my home set-up–\>  
Comcast digital cable from wall, split into two behind entertainment center:  
Coax 1 - Into VCR, Out of VCR with RCAs into Receiver TV/VCR Input  
Coax 2 - Into Digital cable box, out with RCAs into TiVo, Out of TiVo with S-Video into Receiver Video input  
Finally Receiver to TV with S-Video

Situation–\>  
My sound on Coax 2 has suddenly gone very tinny. The wife and I were watching live TiVo. We then switched to something recorded on TiVo. When we went back to live TiVo, the sound is very distorded with tinny sounding treble. I switched over to Coax 1 and the sound is normal. All cable connections are secure. Before I tear it apart, what might have happened?

I just hope nothing’s wrong with the TiVo.

Any idea?

LarsenMTL

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**Author:** ![larsenmtl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@larsenmtl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/larsenmtl)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-audio-sound-suddenly-tinny/267138/2 "2004-10-02T03:46:04Z")

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Update -

I unplugged the TiVo to reset it. Sound is now back to normal. This scares me because now I know the TiVo is to blame. Is it dying or was this just some sort of glitch?