I've been working on this all weekend and I can't figure it out. Here's the setup and problem - I have a Creative Z2 Platinum sound card, a Viewsonic N6 video processor, and set of Klipsch 2.1 Pro ...

There is a low pitch hum in my computer speakers when I have the cable connection plugged in or when either the shield or the core is touching the card. Does anyone know what is going on here?

For laptops, MacBooks and desktop PCs, good audio can often seem like an afterthought. It’s hard to get quality sound from built-in speakers, which have to be crammed inside a hyper-thin chassis ...