How do I get Audio to my headphones????

[inimbusi]

hello anyone know of a device that lets me plug in my headphones without unplugging my speakers from the back? (device must be pretty cheap plz) someone suggested splitters but then that will play sound from both the speakers and headphones at the same time....so i need some clever method to do this thanks!

 

[Macro2]

switchbox

 

[inimbusi]

switch box? do u have a good brand or make myself? lol

 

[hjo3]

I use one I got at RadioShack. I think it was like $25. Supports regular headsets (headphones with microphones, separate ports) and cellphone-type headsets (mic and mono headphone combined into one port). Hit switch, you get speakers, hit it again and you go back to headsets. Great for CS.

 

[hotrodder]

This might work for you frontx. It will turn off your speakers when you plug in your headphones.

 

[inimbusi]

hello, the thing you bought at radio shack..what is the name of it? thanks everyone for all your help

 

[hjo3]

Gosh, I don't remember. THe actual unit only has the following identification printed on it: 10A01 and 26-204. If you just walk into the store and describe it, I'm sure a drone could find it for you.

 

[LiqwudIce]

Originally posted by: inimbusi
hello, the thing you bought at radio shack..what is the name of it? thanks everyone for all your help

I just bought the same thing at radio shack a few days ago. It's only 15 bucks. I may have thrown the box away so i don't know what it's called but it's not hard to find. Just look at the headphones section and audio sections and look for something along the lines of a switch to go between headphones and speakers. You'll find it sooner or later...

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: hotrodder
This might work for you frontx. It will turn off your speakers when you plug in your headphones.

At least, that's what it should do. Some things about mine that don't work:
- it doesn't fully support 4-speaker cutoff - it only works on the front speakers; the rear speakers, if you have them, are unaffected
- The website does mention this; the "solution" is to manually disable the rear speakers in the soundcard software. Well that doesn't do it either. I'm using the FrontX with my 8RDA+, connected to the internal headers. When I set the soundcard to either Headphones or 2 speakers, and plug the headphone into the FrontX headphone jack (which is VERY tight; I need to hold the PC in place or else it'd get pushed off the desk, and this is a loaded PC. Maybe it's just because it's new.) the front speakers just get really really quiet, but they are not shut off.
Basically, I'm not that impressed with this FrontX thing right now.
I just wish my NewQ 3379 equalizer got along with the 8RDA+ - for some reason, nVidia's new drivers cause the equalizer to produce an echo effect when 4 speakers are enabled. This is weird, because the equalizer is pretty much self-contained. It ONLY relies on the outside world for power and sound input - no drivers of any kind are needed, nor is there any way of loading them anyway. But the equalizer did work great as a headphone jack - one that did support speaker cutoff, and it worked on all the speakers.

 

[inimbusi]

yea im only in this dilemma because my New Q platinum makes me lose sound randomly and then after maybe 14-45 seconds sometimes a minute the sound comes back randomly and its quite annoying so if anyone has the same prob as me and knows how to fix that that would be even better so i dont have to buy another part!!!

 

[inimbusi]

i went to radio shack and i found something like it...but it supports only 2 speakers do you guys have this or another version that supports 4?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: inimbusi
i went to radio shack and i found something like it...but it supports only 2 speakers do you guys have this or another version that supports 4?

Free bump for this thread; I'm kind of thinking that either I got a defective SET of parts from FrontX or else the stuff is just junk.
The USB front connector causes Windows XP to keep finding an Unknown device, even when there's nothing connected to the ports! They're just plugged into the motherboard headers. This never happened with the back-panel ports, which connected to the same headers.
So that makes a bad headphone jack that doesn't actually MUTE the speakers; it just quiets them down a bit, and a front USB port that makes Windows see devices that don't exist.

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: hotrodder
This might work for you frontx. It will turn off your speakers when you plug in your headphones.

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