g50v high pitched noise

I get a constant high pitched noise when I use my headphones. Anyone know how to get rid of it?

 

I don't think it will go away completely , but as you age you won't notice higher pitched sounds.
The highest pitched sounds are only heard by women and dogs.

 

Hmm have not used wired headphones with mine yet only my bluetooth ones.

On other models this has happened with usually it was a USB device making it happen or making it worse. So if you have a USB device plugged in take it out and see what happens, or try a different USB slot.

 

yeah I have this too. It's not always on but as soon as I do anything that might "activate" the sound connection I get this static noise. It's not that bad when I play games but watching movies it's a bit more noticeable. Anyone know if there's some kind of filter one can put between the laptop and headphones to filter out this kind of bad static noise?

 

Well I can think of a "filter" which is an external sound card such as the Turtle Beach Amigo

LOL, I don't think the OP can afford to wait that long.

I reiterate ViciousXUSMC's suggestion of removing all USB devices and seeing if the noise stays.

You could also try different audio drivers.

 

Or try plugging in your usb devices in different slots. I know when I switched my mouse and my 360 controller, the noise had stopped.

 

Wow, just did a search for noise cuz my G50VT is doing the same thing!

The USB suggestion is FANTASTIC!

The noise was caused by the USB mouse I plugged close to the headphone jack...!!!

I moved to a USB port on the left of the notebook and all is well now!

 

Yeah, by now this is a pretty well-known problem with these notebooks, unfortunately

 

Not simply notebooks, any sort of computer with an integrated sound card for that matter. The whole sound card is put onto a chip on the main board and it picks up noise for all the other components which are near it (if it's generated EMF) or tied electrically adjacent to it (picking up noise on the common). It's generally on a low level, so long as you don't have the master volume and the wave maxed out you probably won't hear it (much).

The only surefire way is to get the sound to be generated from somewhere *not* on the mainboard (since almost everything is integrated on the board). So using a USB sound card or USB headsets would isolate it, though each has its own set of issues (ie: both have to have default playback source manually changed in some cases, a USB sound card is something that sticks out more, USB headsets generally work fine but are only headsets, congested USB root hubs might cause weirdness with the devices (if you somehow have a USB 1.1 device plugged in on the same root hub).

 

The only way I've gotten clean audio out of a notebook is with a huge quad shielded monster cable over firewire to a high-quality interface. I've tried a bunch of expresscards too, with and without dedicated DSP, all are epic fail in that regard. If you know of a good one please let me know.

 

well this worked for me. i have a post somewhere on here? but heres the short answer....a Targus usb mini hub model #PA055 (none 2.0 BTW) plugged hub into back usb by the A/C plug. i now run all usb stuff off of hub. except flash drives, printer, where 2.0 speed is needed/wanted. but no more noise when gaming, movies or music while headphones are on.

 

Expresscard is iffy since while it has a bit of shielding, remember that laptop chassis themselves have shielding to meet RF emission standards, meaning that you have big sheets of metal which are keeping all that noise in, and the device shielding might not able to provide enough protection for the device itself.

Generally high quality units will have better isolation, though I can't really recommend any since I'm not really particularly keen on having to switch back and forth (I hear it, it annoys me, but it annoys me more to have to have all sorts of extra modules and cards plugged into all the ports on a more permanent basis and more crap in my laptop bag, hence the 200$ V1 docking station for my V1J ).

One of the things you have to watch out for on USB is self-powered devices on the same hub as that sound card (generates more electrical noise depending on the load of the device). You can check to see if the USB on different ports is being shared by the same root hub by going into your Device Manager and checking the Power tab under each USB Root Hub.

Also, like bobh said, sometimes a powered USB hub helps, since you're not pulling the power from the system, so less chance of picking up noise from the system.

 

USB is out of the question for me... I've found it gives you noise no matter how isolated your power supply is. There is one ExpressCard I've heard is clean, the RME HDSPe ExpressCard, but it fits into the same category as just going out to a high quality firewire interface like I already said...

http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdspe_expresscard.php

 

There is a known issue with the USB ports on the G50, my statement was not specific to my current notebook however, USB audio devices have AC adapters which tend to introduce their own noise, that was what I was trying to say.