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Colonel Sanders · 02-16-2003, 12:14 PM

I'm beginning to supsect the Y-cable.

If I move the Y-cable, the humm is effected.

I tired with a head-phone extension(really long 1/8mini-stereo to 1/8mini-stereo). It had PC-extension-Ycable-amp, and the humm was far worse, but I do think the extension is a fairly high quality. So, I think moving the Y-cable closer to the amp could have caused the poorer quality.

Does any of that make sense?

I think Monster Cables are pretty high quality, I might look into ordering a new Y-cable?

***edit***

I'm now quite certain the Y-cable is the problem, I have my head-phones hooked directly to the PC with no back-ground (I cant hear my fan!

)

I would like to try to be cheap with a new Y-Cable, any good brands that anyone could recomend?

Logan

02-16-2003, 12:14 PM	#11
Colonel Sanders Resident AMD enthusiast Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Kansas Posts: 1,445	I'm beginning to supsect the Y-cable. If I move the Y-cable, the humm is effected. I tired with a head-phone extension(really long 1/8mini-stereo to 1/8mini-stereo). It had PC-extension-Ycable-amp, and the humm was far worse, but I do think the extension is a fairly high quality. So, I think moving the Y-cable closer to the amp could have caused the poorer quality. Does any of that make sense? I think Monster Cables are pretty high quality, I might look into ordering a new Y-cable? *edit* I'm now quite certain the Y-cable is the problem, I have my head-phones hooked directly to the PC with no back-ground (I cant hear my fan! ) I would like to try to be cheap with a new Y-Cable, any good brands that anyone could recomend? Logan __________________ Main: Gigabyte GA-770T USB3 - Phenom II 840 - 4GB DDR3 - Radeon 5750 1GB HTPC: MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 - Athlon II 250 - 4GB DDR2 - Radeon 5670 512MB HTPC: Zotac GeForce 6100E-E - Athlon X2 5800+ - 4GB DDR2 "Play a Windows CD backwards and you'll hear satanic voices, thats nothing, play it forwards and it installs Windows." Last edited by Colonel Sanders; 02-16-2003 at 12:19 PM.