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Wireless interference on my wired headphones?

Hi all. I've got a problem with my computer audio setup. I've got my Sony MDR-CD380 connected to the Wolfson jack on a Chaintech AV-710. Whenever there is a considerable amount of network activity (wireless), such as when I'm downloading a file, I get a good deal of static in the headphones. All drivers are up to date and I'm running Windows 7 RC x64. The motherboard is an Asus M2A-VM.

Any ideas?

Wireless interference on my wired headphones?

Reply #1 –
cheap dac? 710 has good optical spdif

Wireless interference on my wired headphones?

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Recommendations? I only use headphones and a powered speaker system (Logitech Z-2300).

Wireless interference on my wired headphones?

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Quote from: Bryanhoop on
Hi all. I've got a problem with my computer audio setup. I've got my Sony MDR-CD380 connected to the Wolfson jack on a Chaintech AV-710. Whenever there is a considerable amount of network activity (wireless), such as when I'm downloading a file, I get a good deal of static in the headphones. All drivers are up to date and I'm running Windows 7 RC x64. The motherboard is an Asus M2A-VM.

Any ideas?


There are two common ways by which any I/O activity on a PC can corrupt sound quality.

One is called Bus contention. One or more I/O devices (onboard or expansion card) can make one or more data paths in the system so busy that other I/O requests for the same path get deferred for too long. If the excessively busy path is shared with an audio device, then the audio device may fail to get timely service, and the results are clicks and pops.  You may or may not be able to solve this problem by updating device drivers, changing card locations, and/or changing device driver parameters for either the device being interfered with, or the device that is causing the interferance.

A second problem is bad grounding on the motherboard. This is particularly problematical with I/O cards that have unbalanced I/O. Once you've torqued down all of the motherboard's and I/O card's mounting screws, you've pretty much done all you can.

Wireless interference on my wired headphones?

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Fixed it. Updated the Southbridge drivers on my motherboard and it went away. Finally!