On Tuesday 27 March 2007 09:43 am, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > Many thanks to all who responded in this thread. Alas, I've found no > way to eliminate the echo effect on Ivy's Inspiron. I altered every > mixer setting I could find, nothing changed the (very irritating) > effect. So the Inspiron gets a "No way!" vote from me re: its > on-board sound facilities. Nice machine otherwise though. > > Best, > > dp Nice machine otherwise though. Yep, I agree. The best I can say is it's apparently tolerable for Sher. And she lets me close the door to her office when she's listening to something using the, to me, intolerable sound. Marv