If it goes too far in and cuts off the sound, that means you have a mono
plug plugged into a stereo jack, most likely. Pam.
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From: David via Talk
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:45 PM
To: Van Lant, Robin ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: OT: headphone jack in laptops
Definitly sounds like your headset plugs would be slightly out of range.
The idea of an extension chord, is a good one, and has actually helped
here too a couple of times. As stated, make sure it is a Stereo cord.
If the general problem is that your plug gets inserted too far into the
outlet output jack of your computer, I have one tiny suggestion for you.
You would need something that would block the plug from getting too far
into the jack, OK. So take the headset to your local hardware store, and
ass them for either a small washer, or even what is called an "O-Ring".
It should have an inner diameter of 3.5mm or just about 1/8 of an inch.
Now have that washer fastened on your headset plug, and see if it will
prevent you from sticking it too far into the socket. Just make sure,
whatever they provide you for a washer, would not have an outer diameter
that would conflict any parts of your laptop case, since that would
prevent you from inserting the plug all together. If you find it needs
one washer for the one laptop, and anotheer thicker washer for the other
laptop, then maybe the best would be to simply tape a washer in front of
the headphone socket, on each computer.
By the way, if you wonder what the difference between a washer and an
O-ring is, I'd provide you this small piece of info. A washer, is a thin
metallic plate, usually circular in its shape, and with a whole in the
middle, it typically will be used, to prevent screws from being
tightened that much, that they will dig themselves into the wall or
other material.
An O-ring, on the other part, is often a bit thicker. It is made up of
some more or less flexible material, like rubber or silicone. The
typical usage for it, is for stabilizing pipelines, or to protect cables
when they have to be pulled through holes in material that could cut
them. An O-ring may likely be tight enough to stick to your headset
jack, without any further modification, but also might prove too thick
for the purpose of preventing the jack from getting too deeply inserted
in the socket. The washer, may be a bit harder to fix to your jack, but
a drop of super-glue could be the idea here. Or, like I said, the washer
could be taped to fit exactly in front of your computer's output socket.
These are but a couple of handy small tricks, and you can do whatever
modifications to them you find necessary. Hope you get the issue worked out.
David
On 2/26/2015 11:57 PM, Van Lant, Robin via Talk wrote:
To those audio equipment gurus out on the list...
I have a laptop at work and one at home. I have a pair of stereo
earphones I use at work when taking notes in meetings. When I plug them
into the jack on my HP laptop, I have to slightly pull them out to have
the volume at normal levels. When I plug this same pair of earphones into
my Toshiba home laptop, I don't hear anything unless I pull it out to a
very precarious place that it will not stay on its own.
I found another pair of cheap earphones at home and these work fine in
both laptops. The plugs on both earphones seem identical to my novice
touch. Any idea why the higher quality earphones have such an issue in
the laptops and why they would perform differently, even though the plugs
look the same? I'll use the cheaper earphones for now, but they have a
tinny sound quality that isn't great, so I'll want to think about
different ones, but I don't want to buy new ones if they won't work. The
good news here is that it's not my laptop jack, which was my first fear
when the other earphones didn't work.
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