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Sound from only one channel

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duragezic

Lifer
So my intention was to buy a 6800GT agp from my cousin's old computer, but that turned out to be overheating and crap so I took his 2x512mb PC3200 ram + Audigy 1 Platinum EX (I believe this is what it is, the one with ext. breakout box) for $80. An okay deal I guess.


Anyway, I downloaded the Audigy drivers and hooked everything up, used the 3.5mm to 1/8" adapter so I could plug my headphones into the headphone jack on the external breakout box. I turned the volume knob up, but when playing mp3s, the sound only came from the left headphone. I'm guessing if I had speakers (other ones died, going to order new ones tomorrow) it would only come out the left speaker. If I dont use the breakout box and plug my headphones into the normal Line Out jack on the sound card, I get sound through both sides.

Any ideas? COnfiguration of the breakout box or anything? Or is the port just fvcked?

Right now it doesn't matter since I only have headphones but I will have 5.1 speakers soon so the only damn use I'd get out of the retarded breakout box is that headphone jack but it doesn't even work right??! 🙁
 
Phones are known to work properly with other sources? Try wiggling it around in the jack. If you're handy you could disect an old walkman (or just pick up a jack at radio shack) and replace the faulty one.
 
Push it into the adapter further, or take it out and try it again. Usually its something loose on the adaptor (source) end and not the end where the headphone is (because you are only getting mono). If you wriggled it around on the headphone side all you'd get would be two mirrored mono channels.

So, fasten that adapter!
 
Yep the phones work if I plug them directly into Line out from the sound card. I also tried with another pair.

No amount of wiggling changes the sound. The adapter requires quite a bit of force to plug the 1/8" cord in, but it snaps and clicks in with a good lock. Same on the Audigy side (3.5mm plug, like a guitar plugs into an amp). It seems fully plugged in on both ends, and I've re-tried several times.

I guess I'll just have to take apart the breakout box and see if anything looks wrong. I don't see how a jack can just go bad, but it feels mechanically ok.. like it's accepting the plug securely. On an old eletric guitar the thing to snap in the plug inside the guitar was just busted so it barely made a connection. Might be something like that.

Could the adapter be mono only maybe? It's old and the only one I have but I believe I used to use it to connect my guitar to my line in on the computer. Of course, that would be a 3.5mm to 1/8" adapter, but I would think it can work both ways.
 
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