Posted by: You Know Who @ 7:12 pm
Ahem, this use to be a really fine sounding set of computer speakers
with a sub-woofer hooked up to our internet computer. It’s the
Boston Acoustics BA 375 and actually stayed turned ON for about
10 YEARS. Not to shabby for a one to two hundred dollar price
range compact system. They started humming a little a couple years
ago (leaking some voltage I guess) and recently started really
crackling as loud as what you try to listen to. I did actually reclaim
the speakers . . .
. . . and while I had the sub-woofer tore apart, found the reason
for the wretched sound. The glue they spray indiscriminately around
the jacks to hold them onto the circuit board for increased stability
eventually rots and becomes brown and CONDUCTIVE!. 
Especially evident around the warm little jack where the power
supply plugs in. Cheap ass construction but hey, can’t complain
considering they were left ‘on’ for 10 years.