Hey

So before I bought the 3dsXL i heard that some people say it has crappy sound  and in case of my 3dsXL it is true. BUT I found out why and its not because the speakers are crap its becaus the XL built quality is.

When I am in the 3ds menu and move to the eshop to listen to the sound/jingle/melody  it sounds unclean as if something is vibrating  a clean  shhhhhh would become a shrhrhrhrhrhrhr (if you know what I mean I lack the english words to exactly explain what I mean lol) This is only happening with the right speaker of my XL  my normal 3ds has perfectly clean sound.


This stops as soon as I press together both sides of the top screen next to the speaker.  So either the speakers in alot of 3ds XL's are lose or its the shitty lose  3d depth slider thats vibrating and destroying the sound. I think its the depth slider because when set to 3d OFF the "vibrating" sound is clearly less obvious because the slider is somewhat locked in position.

Is your crappy sounding XL also stopping when you try what I tried?

Thanks for reading

I'm worried if I do what you're suggesting that I may break the cheap speakers and cause them more harm than good. I'm not sure if it's the quality of the speakers that are so terrible, or if it's just that the sound of them is so much lower than the original 3DS. With my XL I have to turn the speakers all the way up if I want to hear it over any light background noise. I think Nintendo intentionally turned the volume on them lower so as not to stress them, knowing as we do how much smaller they are than the original 3DS speakers.

my 3DSXL sounds perfectly at max volume
maybe theres some kind of production issue with yours...:P

My 3DS XL is a little quieter than my 3DS but other than that I have absolutely no issues with the speakers but I'm not an audio afficionado like others are. It's fine for me.

You dont even have to press that hard  just try to lift your 3dsXL with 2 fingers (so that it still is horizontally)  that should be enough pressure to make the vibration go away. You dont need to destroy it ;)

And as said its easy to hear when you move the "cursor" over the eshop and listen to the last sound of the "melody"

I don't notice any difference between the two.

Although, I found that of all 6 DS/3DS systems, the original DS fat had the loudest speakers.

Why would they put WORSE speakers in an upgraded product? Sound quality is important .

Nintendo admitted that they needed cheaper-, smaller loudspeakers for them to fit in the small spaces between the screen and the frame. So low sound with low quality is to be expected.

What do I propose? Use headphones.

And the best quality.  I remember the first time I listened to the sound on DS Lite versus the phat model I was disappointed how much worse it sounded.  Original 3DS has decent speakers, too.  3DS XL is noticeably worse, the most obvious difference is the maximum volume level.  Much lower on the XL.  Quality is worse, but not terribly so.