HP Envy 14 Beats Audio Connection Help

Ok so the two jacks on the left side are confusing the heck out of me. I figure the left-most port is the mic jack, aka the audio in and the right-most port is the headphone jack, aka, audio out.

I have an audio cord plugged into the right-most port (audio out) which leads to a speaker system. I can play sounds on the notebook and they come out of the speakers just fine.

Now, I also have an iPhone. I have another audio cable connected to that which runs to the left-most port of the envy (audio in). So what I am trying to do is be able to play my iPhone music through the envy and have it come out the speakers. Had the same setup on my old laptop: iphone to mic in, speaker to heaphone.

But, the envy has the beats audio control panel which i'm very unfamiliar with, but I just messed with like every option and I cannot get my iphone music to play at all. Anyone have any ideas?

 

well.

technically both of those jacks are headphone

one of them is headphone AND microphone.


...it's weird

 

true true, yea that's why I'm so confused, I know it's gotta be some weird combo of check boxes and i/o in the beats control panel, just need someone who's done it.

 

For the Envy 14 and 17, don't the jacks act as line-out/in or headphone-out/mic-in/line-in depending on what you plug in?

At least that was how it was on the Envy 17. You can reconfigure the ports to be what you want.

 

Yeah it's different. I've a set of Senn HD 435's plugged into the headphone only jack and notice in the audio cp you can't set "stand alone headphones" as the default device. Only "speakers and headphones". Not sure what i'm doing wrong if anything. They may have it set to detect powered headsets such as the Beats? Dunno if that's possible with a plain L/R/Ground 3.5mm plug. Audio quality is decent but thinking of uninstalling the Beats software as there is an insane amount of bass by default and had to EQ it. Was thinking of buying a Bithead anyway and this may be a good excuse. I've a set of BeyerDynamics on the way - 32ohm but still not convinced the onboard will be up for the clarity job.

sorry for the rambling... lol. Back to the coffee.

 

yea, well if anyone figures out how to config it, please post !

 

bump, halp!

 

ok, some progress....

If I jack the volume up super high on my speaker system, i can hear what my iPhone is playing, but it's still messed up cuz it sounds all echoey and stuff. Basically in the beats control panel, the audio out line is the headset mic section. So I upped the mic boost to 20dB, but the volume is still sooo low compared to something i would play directly on my computer. This is so annoying

 

don't all post at once ;p........but i think i figured it out.

the audio cable i am using is just a normal one, basically meant for one channel at a time, audio out or audio in, so when i plug it into the combo port there is prolly some discrepancy. So im gonna buy a new audio cord and see if it fixes it