Poor earphone quality in Asus F3Ja

Hi,

The audio of this notebook is Ok in speakers but try to connect my earphones/headphones: the background noise is unbereable....

Is it just me or anyone notices the same?


My earphones are from a sony mp3 player and yes they work great in all other laptops I tried. None had this soundcard.

 

I'm not surprised. A lot of Asus' laptops have bad sound quality, even with earphones.

Its something they need to fix.

Maybe you should try another set of earphones on them. If they still get the same result, its coming from the laptop. And unfortunately I don't think there's anything we can do about it.

 

I have to confirm this on my F3Ja. It's quite disturbing.

 

do you have the 'mic' and 'line in' channels muted in the volume control? that can cause excess background noise sometimes.

 

Mic is muted. Line in is not available.

 

Check your volume too, any audio source will sound bad if turned up too high. Your best is to try to keep the volume around middle from the computer (if possible).

 

Thanks for suggestions everyone. It seems that Asus does not like Sony. I just tried my Sennheiser HD600 headphones and there is no background noise whatsoever. Even if I set volume to maximum. When using Sony plugs noise is obvious. However plugs work fine on my mp3 player

cifroes, have you tried other headphones?

 

It could be that they have different impedances. For instance, stock iPod earbuds are a non-standard impedance. Different audio chipsets might be able to deal with this in different ways.

 

That's probably the case. I didn't suspect the plugs because they worked fine also on Asus A6Ja.

 

Bought new Sennheiser earphones, same noise. Tried around 5 earphones, all noisy... All of them work 100% on other laptops, even older Asus ones...

I'm going to return this. I can understand bad speaker quality but horrible headphone quality? that is just insane. I'm using "integrated" audio cards from years and this is the first one I can complain of the quality. And no, I don't demand much...

This is just unaceptable. I can believe it's just drivers or something like that but I tried everything I know with no luck

 

Windows also has bugs with audio noise [IE Noise Bug, HD Noise Bug, etc.]... When using Linux and UNIX I have never had any noise issues. You can also get a really small PCMCIA or USB sound card and substantially improve your sound quality. All integrated sounds cards are crap [relatively speaking], and it's worth the upgrade to better sound [without noise too].

 

Yes, they are all crap but I'm used to it, this one is just unbereable... Are there any good usb sound cards (just for earphones use) and cheap < $50 ?

 

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