Hello,
I recently got an Asus Xonar Essence STX II soundcard, and while looking for information about the card, I came across this. So, someone made a patch for the driver to solve an issue of loud pop noises when switching the output. Now, I indeed have a noise when switching from speakers to headphones (also happens every time I open my session). However, it seems a bit different from what the original poster described there, because it's not a very loud 'pop', and it's in the reverse direction. Well, I'm not sure about the volume, it's louder than on Windows and unpleasant, but intuitively, I wouldn't say loud to the point of damaging the headphones because it doesn't even sound very loud to my ears if I'm wearing the headphones (and I don't think that I have hearing loss). Now, I know that intuition doesn't always tell us the right thing… I have tried to apply the patch, but so far I haven't been able to because I'm missing the /proc/config.gz file, and I think it may require recompiling the entire kernel (I'm using Fedora and the person who made the patch used Arch, where /proc/config.gz may be enabled by default, I don't know).
Do you think that it is alright, or should I be concerned and try to apply the patch asap ? Can this kind of noise really damage headphones, again since it doesn't seem that loud to me ? Also, I never switch while music is playing, and I have since the beginning correctly set the headphone gain setting to < 32 Ω (my headphones are the Sennheiser HD 569, which have an impedance of 23 Ω).
Sorry for the long post, I'm a noob when it comes to audio equipment. Thank you
I recently got an Asus Xonar Essence STX II soundcard, and while looking for information about the card, I came across this. So, someone made a patch for the driver to solve an issue of loud pop noises when switching the output. Now, I indeed have a noise when switching from speakers to headphones (also happens every time I open my session). However, it seems a bit different from what the original poster described there, because it's not a very loud 'pop', and it's in the reverse direction. Well, I'm not sure about the volume, it's louder than on Windows and unpleasant, but intuitively, I wouldn't say loud to the point of damaging the headphones because it doesn't even sound very loud to my ears if I'm wearing the headphones (and I don't think that I have hearing loss). Now, I know that intuition doesn't always tell us the right thing… I have tried to apply the patch, but so far I haven't been able to because I'm missing the /proc/config.gz file, and I think it may require recompiling the entire kernel (I'm using Fedora and the person who made the patch used Arch, where /proc/config.gz may be enabled by default, I don't know).
Do you think that it is alright, or should I be concerned and try to apply the patch asap ? Can this kind of noise really damage headphones, again since it doesn't seem that loud to me ? Also, I never switch while music is playing, and I have since the beginning correctly set the headphone gain setting to < 32 Ω (my headphones are the Sennheiser HD 569, which have an impedance of 23 Ω).
Sorry for the long post, I'm a noob when it comes to audio equipment. Thank you
