Hi all!

Well it appears a wire broke internally in the headset I use with the PC. No
physical damage that I can tell, but the headphone side became intermittent
this afternoon. Granted, it isn't an expensive pair of cans. I think they
were only around $30 about a month ago. I'd hear some machine hash in them,
but the level was light enough that I could ignore it.

Since I couldn't get constant speech feedback from unreliable headphones, I
figured I would rush out and get a new set of cheap headphones. Obviously it
was a stupid move. Got a set that look very similar for around $20, but I'm
getting AC hum when the microphone is plugged in that is so fierce that I
can't hear myself think. Never had this problem before to this extent with
any headset microphone I've used over the years so don't know how to get rid
of it, other than to wear both sets of headphones at the same time and use
the best of each plug in the appropriate jack, which seems a little
ridiculous to me, hi hi. After all, I'm already wearing bone conduction
headphones which are paired to the Iphone, so it isn't like I've got
infinite neck space for all this nonsense even if I cared, hi hi.

I have it all working that way now, but there must be a more elligant
strategy for this. 

I suppose this is pay back for when the XYL told me commandingly (as an XYL
will do) to fix, meaning remove the hum she was getting in her cassette
recordings which was ac in nature. She wasn't impressed with my solution,
which was to teach it the words, and those recordings would be fine.
Recording on battery power was the only workable solution that I eventually
found there. Any wordsmith think they can fix this?

73,
Dave

       

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