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  • Headphone jack dirty

    Posted by Tom Case on July 8, 2012 at 8:40 am

    Does anyone else have the problem of the headphone jack on the IO XT is dirty? THere’s all kinds of random noise that comes out of it. Crackling and buzzing. I have to stop and start frequently for it to stop.

    Richard Starkey replied 13 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Gary Adcock

    July 9, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    [Tom Case] “Does anyone else have the problem of the headphone jack on the IO XT is dirty?”

    Tom,

    that would not be my experiance with any of the units I have, best call Aja Tech Support and talk to them.

    gary adcock
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  • Joe Marotta

    April 25, 2013 at 3:07 pm

    Hi Tom,

    Was wondering if you solved this issue and if so, how? I’m having the same problem. Just downloaded the latest AJA drivers and it’s still crackling randomly.

    Thanks!
    Joe

  • Richard Starkey

    April 29, 2013 at 2:33 pm

    YES!!!!!
    I used to have an AJA I/O, pre-Thunderbolt and I monitored audio from the headphone jack on that until I realised that the quality was rather poor.
    This was only after I had splashed out a lot of money for some very smart audio monitors.
    So I switched to the analog out and it was much better.

    Now in a new suite I have an AJA IO XT and have the same problem as Tom.
    There is occasionally a crackling sound over my audio which won’t go away until I press stop and start again. Sometimes it continues after I press play again.

    It sounds like radio mic interference but is definitely coming from my playback and is completely intermittent.
    I would monitor from the analog out of this device but there is none- unless you manage to track doen that ridiculous cable or get an amp that monitors HDMI.

    Please can anybody with a solution come forward? I have the latest firmware and all other software up to date.
    Brand new Mac 27″ running FCP 7.0.3.

    Cheers,
    Richard STarkey

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