zoqi;604065 Wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > > The noise is still there even if its 100% volume or 0%. > My plan is to get an amp soon and some decent speakers, just wanted to > confirm if the headphone jack was of rather poor quality. > But a temporary solution of a Y plug for my Sennheisers won't work? > 3.5mm split to RCA Male, then use the RCA outputs on the Touch.
The RCAs don't have enough current to drive headphones direct. You either plug the headphones into the headphone jack or use an external headphone amp. (it won't damage anything to use an adapter on the RCA jacks, it just won't work very well) The headphone amp built in to the Touch is certainly not the best money can buy, but it is pretty good. The noise you are hearing is just a side effect of being on the same board with computers and such. It takes a huge amount of design effort to keep ALL the noise generated by a computer out of the headphone amp. The power supply feeding the DAC chip is significantly better than the one feeding the headphone amp so its definitely possible that the RCA outputs could have lower noise than the headphone out. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84943 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
