Headphones CD sound

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Joe S

When I play CD through headphones, sound quality is terrible with a hissing
sound, but sounds fine through speakers. My CD-ROM does not have a
dedicated audio input so I plug the headphones into the green output of the
soundcard.
 
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Unplug speakers and plug headphone into the now empty jack.
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Don't put the volume too high though. You could fry your headphones.



It is probably the "line out" jack you're using, it's not really meant for
headphones. Line out puts out a "flat" signal for an external recorder, or
processor that needs a clean, unedited signal. Computers generally don't
have headphone jacks. Sometimes you get lucky and you have a set of
speakers that has a built-in headphone jack. cd drives usually have them,
but they are nothing but a line out with a volume, but better than nothing,
I guess. You can use the speaker jack, but just be careful not to fry your
headphones. Sometimes, though headphones will have a built-in volume
slider, you can turn this slider way down so you can safely use the speaker
jack.
 
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