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Subtle hum coming from headphone

Deniedstingray

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Nov 2, 2015
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As the title suggests i keep hearing a very annoying hum coming from my headphones every once in a while. I've seen other people have this issue but ive never found a solution. Does anyone have any ideas as to what causes this?
 
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Once you make sure the issue is happening on several devices, trying a new cable is a good idea if you can wire it up properly.
Can be the jack, can be something a bit loose in the cable, bad shielding. Test it with different devices, if it's the same with all of them, can be a loose cable/plug on the headphones or a shielding issue. Not a lot you can do to fix it unless you can rewire them with a new cable to see if that fixes it.
 
I have logitech g633's for this exact reason. Logitech lets you buy extra parts. Would it be worth buying a new cable?

 


Once you make sure the issue is happening on several devices, trying a new cable is a good idea if you can wire it up properly.
 
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