| Inserting Output Plug Into Input Socket [message #64803] |
Sun, 21 November 2010 22:32  |
Jorel
Messages: 47
Registered: November 2010
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I have mistakenly inserted my headphone into the microphone socket in my computer. Honestly, I have done it a lot of times. Will this create a problem in my sound card? Right now, I need to insert the headphone plug just halfway because I won't hear any voice when I completely insert the plug.
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| Re: Inserting Output Plug Into Input Socket [message #64874 is a reply to message #64803] |
Wed, 24 November 2010 11:35  |
Adveser
Messages: 434
Registered: July 2009
Location: USA
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The headphones only working halfway in usually means that the wiring has a short in it. A stereo headphone plug is a tip-ring-sleeve configuration and if you get sound with only two of the three contacting the jack and nothing with all three, then there is a short.
You say the hardware is fine on the card/mobo, but I've worn out many headphones jacks. I didn't know how at the time, but eventually you can wear the metal down to the point solid contact becomes impossible
I usually only call a microphone or guitar pickups a transducer myself, so that might have been confusing. Inverting the polarity of any speaker turns it into a (piss poor) microphone and vice versa. Microphones don't make good speakers as you can imagine except for certain supertweeters over the years doing this.
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