h2oxide Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 (edited) OK so basically my DAC has left and right coloured AND labelled L/R and the back of my head amp ONLY has label L/R and no colour in the connection (both black coloured connectors). My integrated amp just has colours (red/white) and no L or R. Following the logic from the DAC (black is L and red is R) I hooked my head amp up the same way and it was wrong (right was left and left was right in audio/games) so I swapped them on the back of the head amp and everything worked correctly. I'm just puzzled if both devices (head amp and DAC) are hooked up identically on the back of the integrated amp, why is the connection different on their end of things? Here's a diagram of the incorrect way I had it hooked up initially and had to switch L and R on the back of the head amp. (excuse the cruddy diagram, its late) Edited December 5, 2012 by h2oxide
A J Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 That's the right connections - left def white or black and right always red. Did you have the headphones on the right way ?? - if you need to swap the plugs to get correct l/r there is no harm in that - not sure why the mix-up
Juicester Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 R-ed for R-ight. Easiest way to remember! 1
h2oxide Posted December 5, 2012 Author Posted December 5, 2012 (edited) Red for right = wrong way when it comes to my head amp for some reason. AJ I definitely had the headphones on the right way, the Audeze earpads make sure of that I'm just confused as to why I had to switch them to the incorrect way to get the correct l/r channels. Is there a possibility q-cable may have labelled the right mini-xlr L and the left mini-xlr R on the aftermarket Audeze cable? I'll try with the stock cable when I get home from work and if thats the case I'll swap the interconnects back to the correct way and just change the mini-xlr's around. Edited December 5, 2012 by h2oxide
h2oxide Posted December 6, 2012 Author Posted December 6, 2012 (edited) Fixed! It was the Q-cable wired incorrectly (L is R and R is L) so I emailed him about this issue. For the time being just swapped the mini XLRs over and put the interconnects back to normal (Red for right) Edited December 6, 2012 by h2oxide
h2oxide Posted December 6, 2012 Author Posted December 6, 2012 It was the Q-cable wired incorrectly (L is R and R is L) so I emailed him about this issue. For the time being just swapped the mini XLRs over and put the interconnects back to normal (Red for right)
h2oxide Posted December 6, 2012 Author Posted December 6, 2012 (edited) Nope, thats not the issue! I'm really confused. Somehow the PC keeps automatically switching it to the opposite side every time I do the left/right channel test! Am I going insane!? Every time I swap over the mini XLRs it seems to swap so audio orientation is ALWAYS incorrect. I think my head amp is automatically switching which channel is which when I switch the XLRs? Edited December 6, 2012 by h2oxide
h2oxide Posted December 6, 2012 Author Posted December 6, 2012 (edited) Alright. I've dived deeper into this. Its happening on both my speakers and headphones randomly. after 2 minutes of inactivity (no sound played through source) the phase goes out and Left becomes right and right becomes left. Then when I play music in foobar for a second and exit foobar left channel goes back to being left. I think this may be an issue with the Audiophilleo and PurePower when they go idle? Sent an email to Audiophilleo support Hi, I recently purchased Audiophilleo and PurePower from Addicted to Audio in Australia. Now, once the PC goes idle (no sound/music playing for 5 minutes) the Left channel automatically? swaps to right and right to left causing it to be mixed up. The second I open foobar and play music it fixes itself, but if I don't play music (ie games) it stays muddled up. I've tracked it back to the Audiophilleo and PurePower (via isolation of components). Have you heard of this issue before? Peter Edited December 6, 2012 by h2oxide
a.dent Posted December 6, 2012 Posted December 6, 2012 (edited) Weird Have you got "invert polarity" checked on your player software? Edit: dumb question! that won't change left right. Edited December 6, 2012 by a.dent
Jventer Posted December 6, 2012 Posted December 6, 2012 Nice headphone gear! All the best with your issue.
Gee Emm Posted December 6, 2012 Posted December 6, 2012 (edited) Dontchya just love computer programmers and coders. IME, they almost never validate. They verify, but they don't validate. Verify = model it, eg read the recipe and presume/agree it should work. Validate = prove it, eg bake the cake and actually see what comes out of the oven. Graham Edited December 6, 2012 by mr-happy-pants
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