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| Thread ID: 46234 | 2004-06-17 11:22:00 | Speakers with headphone socket | supergran (108) | Press F1 |
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| 245457 | 2004-06-18 10:22:00 | Ok, sorry for the delay getting back here, but been busy day. I did try another set of headphones before I posted here, there is no headphone jack anywhere on the front of the tower, and I can't get to the back easily. LOL The speakers are working, so guess I will just have to try and find time to ring Compaq, but thanks for the suggestions. | supergran (108) | ||
| 245458 | 2004-06-18 13:39:00 | Do you have a little pop out panel at the front or near the front on the side, with USB, etc. A headphone and mic jack are often provided there. I don't know what the world is coming to when they no longer provide a jack in the CD/DVD face plate. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 245459 | 2004-06-18 23:16:00 | Hi Supergran I think phoning Compaq will be a frustrating and fruitless waste of time. The relationship between the heaphones and the speaker is electro-mechanical, i.e. a mechanical plug and socket transferring an audio signal. It is best to check the headphones first, and I doubt that there would be many houses in NZ that didn't have a radio, TV, stereo or other audio device with a 3.5 mm phone jack. Find such a device in your house, a neighbours or a local shop and try them out. The only proviso here is that your speaker system may be a master/slave unit. The master would have a power cord as well and take low-level audio from your computer and may also have volume and tone controls. The second speaker would plug into the master because that is where the amplified signal will come from. In a master/slave unit it is remotely possible that the headphone outlet could be muted, but if inserting the headphones shut off the speakers (to give superhubby the peace he desired) then this won't be the case. Logically then, the only places for the fault to exist are in the headpones themselves, or the socket they plug into. Does plugging them in still shut off the speakers? If it does then it is 99% certain that the headphones are faulty. Test by the means outlines above, or borrow another set of headphones to try. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 245460 | 2004-06-19 03:07:00 | Promethius: If your card is a modern one, it is unlikely to have an amplifier, so you might have trouble hearing anything (whatever the quality) if the phones are plugged into the "speaker" output. ;-) A Line output, even though it's "line level" might be as bad, because it is at a reasonably high impedance. | Graham L (2) | ||
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