6324w, slight background noise in headphones?

Not sure if I read someone else hearing a little background noise when plugging in headphones. Its nothing I notice if I play audio in them, but when nothing plays its there, its not loud, but its a bit annoying. I only noticed it last night, havent really been thinking about it since so there is a small possibility it was a one time issue... will check it out the coming few days.

Anyone else noticed this?

 

That's with all laptops and computers...
Even with my mp3 player when it's on, but nog playing music! Just normal!

 

I know a lot of devices have a silent shh sound, but this sound seems to be changing tones and going louder and and more quiet again. For example having another pair of headphones plugged into this desktop I'm not hearing any noise, so if its there its too low for my ears to hear it. My mp3-player has a pretty quiet sound but its always constant. Maybe its just me not having listened to enough headphones in portable players. Or maybe I'm just looking for errors in a otherwise close to perfect lappy.

 

On my laptop with earphones I can't usually hear anything, but with my good headphones I can hear a weird buzzing sort of noise, so if I'm not listening to music I either turn the Wave volume high and the master volume low, or just completely mute it.

 

I have the same issue. It's a rather loud (even if speaker volume turned down) alternating high pitch and medium pitch tone every 2 seconds or so. It's rather annoying and means I can't use headphones unless there is noise (e.g. music) to drown out the tone.

Can anyone from Zepto say whether all their laptops make this noise?

 

I have the same problem with my 6224W. Very annoying.
The laptop speakers are bad quality too (only mine maybe ?) Some frequency ranges make them saturate very easily (not twenty percent of the available volume). I tried to listen with a single speaker at a time and the problem was less noticeable. I reckon there is some kind of resonance on the screen body that makes the result worse with both activated.
Very disappointed in the sound system. Any clue to improve anything ? Thx

 

Is it like a high pitch electrical static noise?

 

No it's not static (hissing) which is reasonably easy to cope with. It's a very annoying alternating tone.

Anyhow, I have discovered it's some sort of interference from the USB port next to the headphone jack. I solved it by putting my USB mouse in the USB port at the back of the machine. Silence again. Bliss!

 

http://business.pcauthority.com.au/review/zepto-znote-6314w.aspx

Why are australia getting a much lower spec? Go 7600, 1gb ram, 1280*800 screen, and this was dated 2 weeks ago.

 

This is an older model they are reviewing...But I have no idea why.Last year it was a 6214 and 6314

 

It's an online version of a magazine review which was written some time ago. The dating on the online version is misleading.

 

Oh dear. A bit of an update to this. Was sitting this evening with headphones in and a mid pitch static noise that was too loud for me to drown out with the music unless volume turned up high. After some experimentation turning off various devices I discovered that when the screen backlight is on full brightness there is no hiss but the lower the screen brightness is set the more the medium pitch hiss occurs. I like to listen to music with volume low and this interference makes it impossible.

NB. This is different to the alternating tone caused by the USB port next to the jack being used.

In view of these 2 problems I wonder if there ought to be some sort of shielding implemented??

 

when i first noticed this awful noise i didnt use a mouse so it had nothing to do with the usb port i guess. its probably the other noise you are talking about that i'm hearing, and i do agree its really annoying. movies is possible to watch but still annoying, no point listening to music though unless you wanna turn up the volume real load, it just ruins the music.

is there any way this could be software related? is anyone from zepto willing to comment on this issue pls, if you have any idea on whats going on. this is the only think i find annoying about this otherwise wonderful lappy.

thanks zepto!

 

I found that my old headphones with foam around the earcups ( http://www.sony.co.nz/images/productgraphics/med/MDRG74SL_M.JPG) filter that background noise out...a pity I can't use my newer earbuds !

 

I think it's a pretty common problem. My Dell desktop here at work has the same situation.. a buzzing from headphones when idle - when music is on (even at a low level) it's not an issue however..