Hi everyone,
I am currently experiencing a problem where my studio monitors (Mackie MR5 MKIII) produce white noise when plugged into my PC. I am using a Y-shaped RCA to 3.5mm cable which is electromagnetically shielded to connect my studio monitors to my PC. The white noise appears to get louder when I turn up the level knob on my monitors. Additionally, the noise becomes more high pitched and significantly louder when I run GPU intensive tasks such as playing a game.
I have made several attempts to troubleshoot my problem:
- Tried plugging in headphones (no noise from the headphones when doing this)
- Connecting my studio monitors to my laptop which is currently charging (no noise from studio monitors)
- Using an external DAC with line-out instead of a soundcard (noise still persists)
- Lifting my studio monitors off the ground (noise still persists)
- Disabling the MIC (noise still persists)
- Plugging in my computers power cable to a different outlet (noise still persists)
I am a bit perplexed as what is the producing the noise. Is it a ground-loop ( I still do not understand the term very well)? Is it a cable problem? Maybe EMI? Could the power supply be the culprit?
If anyone can help me diagnose the problem and provide a solution it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I am currently experiencing a problem where my studio monitors (Mackie MR5 MKIII) produce white noise when plugged into my PC. I am using a Y-shaped RCA to 3.5mm cable which is electromagnetically shielded to connect my studio monitors to my PC. The white noise appears to get louder when I turn up the level knob on my monitors. Additionally, the noise becomes more high pitched and significantly louder when I run GPU intensive tasks such as playing a game.
I have made several attempts to troubleshoot my problem:
- Tried plugging in headphones (no noise from the headphones when doing this)
- Connecting my studio monitors to my laptop which is currently charging (no noise from studio monitors)
- Using an external DAC with line-out instead of a soundcard (noise still persists)
- Lifting my studio monitors off the ground (noise still persists)
- Disabling the MIC (noise still persists)
- Plugging in my computers power cable to a different outlet (noise still persists)
I am a bit perplexed as what is the producing the noise. Is it a ground-loop ( I still do not understand the term very well)? Is it a cable problem? Maybe EMI? Could the power supply be the culprit?
If anyone can help me diagnose the problem and provide a solution it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!