firefox360
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I just finished up drilling the holes for all the components yesterday, and had the amp working 2 days ago. Ever since I've put the components together on the front panel of the Serpac H-65 case I've been having some issues with the amp. I'm not sure if it's attributed to the interconnect I'm using or not, but here's are the problems:
1. Yesterday I was about to listen to music on my amp after casing it up. I plug in the 3.5mm-3.5mm interconnect going between the CMoy and my computer sound card (a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!, with the kX Project drivers). Then I plug in my pair of test headphones (iPod Earbuds) and turn the volume on the pot to the absolute lowest.
I then turn on the power, and pressed "Play" in iTunes (which is the interface for Foobar2k). When I did, all I heard comming out of the headphones were massive distortion comming out of the left earbud. Nothing from the right. It sounded as if the sound was being blasted through those earbuds at full volume from the amp. I recheck my pot, and turned it all the way from left to the right (which resulted in noise from BOTH earbuds), and from right to left (which resulted in noise just from the LEFT earbud).
I don't have a clue as to what the cause of this would be. I checked all the solder joints and everything seems alright. Wiggling my interconnect seems make the sound go back to normal sometimes, but there still something wrong with the sound. I'm not sure if this is due in part to the cheap ass interconnect that I'm using, which has had a past history with bad connections probably stemming from the poor build, or if it's something wrong with my amp.
2. When I first had problem #1, with the loud distortions, I immediately unplugged the interconnect, I then proceeded to wear the headphones to check if there was any background noise which would atleast lead to me to believe that something was wrong with the amp. Rather than noise, I was greeted with the song that my computer was currently playing. So I then pressed "Pause" in iTunes, and the music comming out of the amp stopped. I then pressed "Play" and the music in the amp continued. It was then I realised that I had mini-radio in my hands...
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So does anyone know what the cause of these problems could be? I've linked some pictures of my amp below which I guess might be helpful. If you need anymore pictures please ask:
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Top of Amp 1
Top of Amp 2
Top of Amp 3
Top of Amp 4
Wiring of Pot
Wiring of Jack 1
Wiring of Jack 2
Top of Amp 5
Bottom of Amp 1
Bottom of Amp 2
Bottom of Amp 3
1. Yesterday I was about to listen to music on my amp after casing it up. I plug in the 3.5mm-3.5mm interconnect going between the CMoy and my computer sound card (a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!, with the kX Project drivers). Then I plug in my pair of test headphones (iPod Earbuds) and turn the volume on the pot to the absolute lowest.
I then turn on the power, and pressed "Play" in iTunes (which is the interface for Foobar2k). When I did, all I heard comming out of the headphones were massive distortion comming out of the left earbud. Nothing from the right. It sounded as if the sound was being blasted through those earbuds at full volume from the amp. I recheck my pot, and turned it all the way from left to the right (which resulted in noise from BOTH earbuds), and from right to left (which resulted in noise just from the LEFT earbud).
I don't have a clue as to what the cause of this would be. I checked all the solder joints and everything seems alright. Wiggling my interconnect seems make the sound go back to normal sometimes, but there still something wrong with the sound. I'm not sure if this is due in part to the cheap ass interconnect that I'm using, which has had a past history with bad connections probably stemming from the poor build, or if it's something wrong with my amp.
2. When I first had problem #1, with the loud distortions, I immediately unplugged the interconnect, I then proceeded to wear the headphones to check if there was any background noise which would atleast lead to me to believe that something was wrong with the amp. Rather than noise, I was greeted with the song that my computer was currently playing. So I then pressed "Pause" in iTunes, and the music comming out of the amp stopped. I then pressed "Play" and the music in the amp continued. It was then I realised that I had mini-radio in my hands...
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So does anyone know what the cause of these problems could be? I've linked some pictures of my amp below which I guess might be helpful. If you need anymore pictures please ask:
56k'ers Beware: Each image above 1MB in size (2560 x 1920 res each)
Top of Amp 1
Top of Amp 2
Top of Amp 3
Top of Amp 4
Wiring of Pot
Wiring of Jack 1
Wiring of Jack 2
Top of Amp 5
Bottom of Amp 1
Bottom of Amp 2
Bottom of Amp 3