Headphone Noise

The notebook I use have all one issue: headphone noise. In some cases, it's just really only noise, somtimes it incorporates a humming or whizzing sound that seems to come from the internal parts of the notebook.
Of course, the noise won't get away if you turn down the volume, it's kind of fixed.

When I looked for a solution, I even saw guides how to open the whole laptop to solve the problem, but I think, that's way too risky. You may lose warranty or even your data.

I noticed one other thing about usual notebook headphone outputs: Usually, they are much, much louder than needed, almost as if they'd expect you to plug-in speakers instead of headphones directly.

So my conclusion was: If I can reduce the volume after the headphone jack, I'll also reduce the noise. And being too loud anyway, it will be easy to compensate the volume reduction just by turning up the volume inside of windows a bit.

First I wanted to do it on my own but then I discovered, that there are external volume controls that you can just plug between the notebook and your earphones!

I use this one with my Zepto now:

and it works perfectly!
The noise is absolutely gone and being an extreme loud soundcard, I can still blow my ears away with it if I want. And of course I can get back to the original volume, too. But then, there would be the noise again.

Some other solution would look like this:


You can get these volume controls in the mp3 player or headset departments, just look very closely, they're hard to find sometimes!

btw. they're also a good idea for gamers who want to control the volume without interrupting their gameplay

...just before anyone is going to break his notebook only to get rid of some noise