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Zorak of Michigan
Jun 10, 2006


Kwolok posted:

I have a nice pair of headphones powered through a DAC and AMP. I also have a subwoofer for bass that I run from the same AMP. So I have a 1/4" splitter that splits the AMP output with one going to my headphones and one going to my woofer.

This works well, however I have noticed that I get bleed across my left and right channels when my subwoofer is plugged into the splitter, but when I unplug the subwoofer, the audio bleed in my headphones no longer occurs. Any idea how I can fix this?

What does your full signal chain look like? Do you have any other outputs you could use to drive the sub?

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Zorak of Michigan
Jun 10, 2006


Kwolok posted:

My DAC is connected to my computer via USB. The DAC has a pair of RCA's coming out of the back, this is the only output it has and that goes to my amp which only has a single 1/4 Jack output which I'm splitting. It's an old magni/modi by schiit. The splitter goes to my headphones and then to a butt kicker gamer 2.

Want to throw money at the problem? Replace the amp with one that had a pass-through output.

Zorak of Michigan
Jun 10, 2006


Looks like it would work to me.

Zorak of Michigan
Jun 10, 2006


Man that sucks. I hope you can return it. Auto-muting the output is a dumb thing to mandate.

Edit: do you have analog outs on your PC? If so, what OS do you run? If there's a way to enable multiple active outputs, driving the sub from the analog output should work. Also it would probably be something you could try for free.

Zorak of Michigan fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Dec 15, 2023

Zorak of Michigan
Jun 10, 2006


I'm guessing it's between the Y-cable and the subwoofer? I wouldn't have expected that, but I'm glad you found an economical solution.

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