headphone jack

[Sam]

first, the sound shouldn't be cutting out from one channel. period. if it is doing that, it is broken. second, MOST devices do not push enough power to headphones/speakers to keep them from distorting at volume. just about everything distorts at max, especially if you are using quality headphones/speakers and no amp. this is not my "portable rig", but i do carry an amp sometimes.




i HIGHLY recommend getting one if you are interested in better sound quality. you can spend anywhere from $5 to well over $1,000 for an amp, and even the cheap ones make a HUGE difference. your bass will not fade and your highs will hurt you (if you aren't careful)! PM me for questions about sound quality or whatever, and if there is enough interest i'll start a thread.

*edit* holy crap those pics are terrible..

[Anthony Vu]

first, the sound shouldn't be cutting out from one channel. period. if it is doing that, it is broken. second, MOST devices do not push enough power to headphones/speakers to keep them from distorting at volume. just about everything distorts at max, especially if you are using quality headphones/speakers and no amp. this is not my "portable rig", but i do carry an amp sometimes.




i HIGHLY recommend getting one if you are interested in better sound quality. you can spend anywhere from $5 to well over $1,000 for an amp, and even the cheap ones make a HUGE difference. your bass will not fade and your highs will hurt you (if you aren't careful)! PM me for questions about sound quality or whatever, and if there is enough interest i'll start a thread.

*edit* holy crap those pics are terrible..

I concur...the photos are crap </joke>

But seriously....that is a sweeeeet amp.

Totally agree with you. You want good sound, then you gotta pay for it.

No device at MAX volume will give you clean sound, esp small tiny electronic devices. Any time you plug an audio device as an auxiliary source, you should ALWAYs turn the volume down, then turn it up on main audio output. That's common practice among DJs and audio for video.

[dayday11]

The problem is not distortion in all speakers it is in the left front only. IPod can be turned all the way up with no problems. The sine can be turn up with no problem. This is a device issue. The people at Verizon swamped out my phone and the new one still does it, plus te ones in the store does it. I just have stopped turning it up fully on the phone. My car setup is fine has been for years. The headphones make the noise, car, and my home theater does too. Out of one speaker it is not anything but a problem with the device. I can have it turned up full blast on the phone speaker and have no problems.

[nire01]

same problem here too. there is little or no distortion at high volume, and no good reason for that popping in the left channel, and it concerns me. This really doesn't present much of a problem in the media center as I wouldn't be playing at full volume, but on apps like pandora I sometimes have to crank it all the way up and it just becomes unacceptable.

I am also a little uncertain about the sound quality. Coming from an ipod touch, which by no means is an audiophile device, the droid maybe sounds a little more detailed, but the midrange feels a little thin to me. Headphone amps are out-not going to carry around, thinking about replacing my headphones with something more sound isolating so I can reduce volume. Also lack of any audio adjustments on the phone really is puzzling.

[abooch1]

I don't care what anyone says this should NOT happen

[jackpfree]

Same problem hear, the left ear of the headphones has a crackling sound when the volume is on max (Which wouldnt be a problem but the max volume on the droid isnt even loud).

I had them replace my phone but the issue still goes on, do not replace your phone because of this since it seems like its an issue with all of them

i really hope its a software issue, but i am interested in those little amps, always wanted to do something like that and hey, if it fixes the problem im all for it!

[OneManRiot]

I have the same problem and I want someone to fix it soon. Its only the left side of the headphones as you said. IPHONE KILL MY A**

[Crooks0286]

I to ran into this issue similar to this. When playing music in my car i noticed my left speaker would make cracking sounds. I thought the headphone jack was broken and was planning on returning it for a new one, but setting the volume to 75% is working perfectly for me.

[ujhony03]

THANK GOD FOR FORUMS!!! This issue has been driving me bonkers for good week. This just saved me $1,000. I ordered new speakers for my BMW because i thought i blew out the left channel. This is oviously not so. I'm at work and just ran out just now and tried it. Set the volume one notch down from max on the device, everything sounds great.
I've not noticed the issue with headphones since i use bluetooth headphones; this issue is not tied to that. This leads me to believe it is a hardware issue, not software. Unless its specificly tied to software which routes to the plug itself (could be).

I just cancelled my order for speakers.. YEY!
Im not happy of the issue though. It should not be happening. If on my $50 shuffle i can crank the music to max and hear it fine, i would expect it from a "higher quality" device

[ujhony03]

I think this should be made a sticky so that we dont see a bunch more people returning their droids