Yo hoo everyone.
Got me those nice bling bling KRK Rokit 8 monitors and am struggling as they keep playing a noise. It can't be the monitors or cable. Am running them raw via 3,5 mm to chinch even though that is not really the final setup but it must/should work. Tested MacBook and MP3 player...brilliant sound. iMac..? Bssssssssssssss! Gosh how that irritates me. Tested my Audio 8 DJ sound card which I usually just used in clubs for time code vinyl: Even this device give a noise. The Rokits were on lowest volume and the volume of the noise stayed constant even when I leveled up the volume of the iMac. I tried to just run the iMac and Rokits, no help. Tried all kind of switching plugs, run iMac and Rokits from different plugs (I think I tried all plugs on this level of this building), no help. I never used monitor on this iMac as I got it not soon long ago and before I used Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones for monitoring. No noise, nothing. Same 3,5 mm plug. How come? I have noooo clue! Do those headphones have a special iMac-Noise filter? I doubt it. I am lost why they don't play the same noise though. Getting a new sound card at this point is no option and somehow it looks like this problem even would effect another sound card as it did appear on the NI Audio 8 DJ too. It irritates me and I wished to be able to not hear this noise whenever it should actually be silence.
Apart of that the KRK's sound nice hey. Ok low end is yaaah....it doesn't blow me from the chair but I guess it needs a sub for that - plus own house to not annoy neighbors so till then I will do the bass check on our soundsystem which is luckily located in a building that has no neighbors lol.
Ok. So. Anyone who shares my pain? Listen the noise sample and you will. The noise goes along the activity as scrolling up down or when the cpu works for other jobs. The start of the sample is the 'normal' noise. Sometimes it got a pulse somehow. I read about ground loop and isolators which can be plugged in between Comp and Speaker but I mean...really? I heard the sound card of the iMac is good so wtf?
TIPS and HELP very welcome. Thanks a lot.
Ruffftec
Got me those nice bling bling KRK Rokit 8 monitors and am struggling as they keep playing a noise. It can't be the monitors or cable. Am running them raw via 3,5 mm to chinch even though that is not really the final setup but it must/should work. Tested MacBook and MP3 player...brilliant sound. iMac..? Bssssssssssssss! Gosh how that irritates me. Tested my Audio 8 DJ sound card which I usually just used in clubs for time code vinyl: Even this device give a noise. The Rokits were on lowest volume and the volume of the noise stayed constant even when I leveled up the volume of the iMac. I tried to just run the iMac and Rokits, no help. Tried all kind of switching plugs, run iMac and Rokits from different plugs (I think I tried all plugs on this level of this building), no help. I never used monitor on this iMac as I got it not soon long ago and before I used Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones for monitoring. No noise, nothing. Same 3,5 mm plug. How come? I have noooo clue! Do those headphones have a special iMac-Noise filter? I doubt it. I am lost why they don't play the same noise though. Getting a new sound card at this point is no option and somehow it looks like this problem even would effect another sound card as it did appear on the NI Audio 8 DJ too. It irritates me and I wished to be able to not hear this noise whenever it should actually be silence.
Apart of that the KRK's sound nice hey. Ok low end is yaaah....it doesn't blow me from the chair but I guess it needs a sub for that - plus own house to not annoy neighbors so till then I will do the bass check on our soundsystem which is luckily located in a building that has no neighbors lol.
Ok. So. Anyone who shares my pain? Listen the noise sample and you will. The noise goes along the activity as scrolling up down or when the cpu works for other jobs. The start of the sample is the 'normal' noise. Sometimes it got a pulse somehow. I read about ground loop and isolators which can be plugged in between Comp and Speaker but I mean...really? I heard the sound card of the iMac is good so wtf?
TIPS and HELP very welcome. Thanks a lot.
Ruffftec
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