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Front/rear Jacks + headphones.

post #1 of 3
5/11/11 at 1:44am
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I've recently bought my first expensive headphone, The sennheiser HD 598 (expensive for me atleast considering I'm used to 10 euro headphones)

Now, to try it out i directly plugged it into the front audio jack of my PC and it sounds quite nice, However I'm getting quite alot of background noice even when music isn't playing when plugged into this(front headphone) jack. It's quite annoying when listening to a calm song/a moment of silence.

 

Then i plugged it into the rear plug. The PC then recognizes the headphones as speakers and the Volume is really poor even when i turn up the sound to it's maximum.

 

now I'm a total idiot when it comes to audio but do I need an external amp/dac or something to boost the volume from the rear jack of is there another possible way of removing that background noice?


Thanks for the help.

 

Cheers,

 

Fingon

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post #2 of 3
5/11/11 at 1:58am
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I Opened the case and i found one cable that was slightly loose so i reconnected it and it fixed the static sound.

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post #3 of 3
5/11/11 at 2:10am

I'm an audio noob, but I've done some research because I had similar problems.

 

What onboard sound do you have? Realtek claims to have some sort of headphone amplification. I remember researching stuff for my friend and his version only had headphone amplification on 3 of the 6 stereo jacks in the back. On my own onboard, my blue jack isn't as loud as the others. It sounds like your onboard may only support amplification in the front jack.

 

The front audio jack problem that you have may be caused by many different things. It could just be damaged. I destroyed my front USB ports on accident by bumping into them when something was plugged in (this is why I plug my headphones into the back). Maybe the cable from motherboard to front is bad, or receiving some sort of noise (my cable passes a harddrive and case fan).

 

edit: lol, you fixed the issue as I was posting... no delete option?

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