[Hifi Man]

I got a pair of Sennheiser HD650 headphones with vali and modi and there's this really annoying humming sound. Does anyone know what's causing it and how I can make it go away?

 

[money4me247]

that's the lil headphone gnome that lives inside your headphone drivers hummin along to your tunes! you must have good taste in music 

 
lol. see if the humming occurs when you are using the headphones by emselves or if the gnome just doesn't like to play nice w/ your amp or dac. check your cable connections & source. the headphone gnome likes to have everything very tidy or else he gets cranky.

 

[Hifi Man]

It's gone away completely now. I don't know what was causing it but it doesn't matter now. I will report back if it happens again.

 

[money4me247]

  It's gone away completely now. I don't know what was causing it but it doesn't matter now. I will report back if it happens again.

didja sacrifice a goat? sometimes that appeases the headphone gnomes

 

[swmkdr]

the sound are the micro phonics from the tubes  on the Vali - check the schiit website and they mention a ringing that will happen when you first plug in headphones, tap the amp etc.

 

[Hifi Man]

holy crap does this amp suck

 

[kojebee]

I had a problem similar to that. I did everything i could think of, changed headphones, amps, dacs, computers, chenged ports, used different plug sockets etc. It drove me nuts. Strangely imo, when I changed the cables between the dac and headphone amp, the problem disappeared.

 

[wolfetan44]

  holy crap does this amp suck

Why?

 

[Hifi Man]

because the amp was making a stupid amount of buzzing it seems to have gone away completely again though. Whenever I leave it turned on or I just turn it on it tends to make the ringing.

 

[kinger2005]

Might not even be the microphonics. Vali has a Thd of. 4% which is pretty high. It sounds great for 100$'but you have to put up with some compromises.