On 06/27/2016 12:42 PM, David Niklas wrote:
Hello,
I'm not running debian, rather Gentoo, but this happens with any distro
and sound card (so far), so I figured this is as good a place as any to
start (though linuxquestions is a close second).
My sound card is currently (according to lspci), an ATI/ATI SBx00 Azalia
(Intel HDA), though I used another ATI card on another MB before the MB
broke (the MB was a lemon). Both cards are built into the MB.
The said problem also happens independent of the audio playing app.
The problem is this, if I plug an audio jack for my headphone into the jack the
whole way then I get a lot less volume on the channels. I don't think
it's a decrease in the bass, though it might be.
Now, if I pull the headphone jack out, just a bit, it plays everything fine.
This is a little odd, and I might just dismiss it as a random quirk of
my machine, but now it has happened to my laptops headphone jack too.
Also, I've recorded some audio from an old cassette tape onto my computer
(cassette tape players are getting hard to find), and some of the said
audio I somehow got to require that the headphone jack be fully plugged in to
play correctly. [scratches head] I with I knew how I did this, it's
really odd.
So, my questions are:
1: What causes this?
2: How might I rerecord the audio files so they play right on a computer
without this problem without using the now broken tape deck?
Thanks, David
This is almost certainly a mechanical problem. Either the jack on the
computer is defective--or made to an incorrect specification--this
happens!--or the plug on your headphones
is defective--perhaps just a little too long, or the spacing between the
elements--common, left, right channels is incorrect. Did you perhaps try
some other headphones?
--doug
