Ok, so in my quest to get rid of this awful static noise coming from the headphone output, I found something very interesting.
If I play any audio file (regardless of its bit rate) with iTunes I get this annoying noise, BUT if I use VLC multimedia player I get a much more dissimulated noise. I don't want to say it's completely gone but it is definitely easier to deal with, especially with piano solos or vocals with no bases or percussion... (an explanation to this may be the higher volume gain of VLC, its output is about 60% more powerful)
All this leads me to think that this problem might be derived from iTunes or the sound card driver and not from a poor headphone/hardware isolation...
I would like to hear some input from some of you guys... give it a try, maybe your sanity might become less of an utopia when listening to your music on your MBP.
Cheers.
BTW I'm using a pair of Shure SE420 and I've also tried my sennheiser Px250 and my Shure E4C... all of this headphones have high impedances...
If I play any audio file (regardless of its bit rate) with iTunes I get this annoying noise, BUT if I use VLC multimedia player I get a much more dissimulated noise. I don't want to say it's completely gone but it is definitely easier to deal with, especially with piano solos or vocals with no bases or percussion... (an explanation to this may be the higher volume gain of VLC, its output is about 60% more powerful)
All this leads me to think that this problem might be derived from iTunes or the sound card driver and not from a poor headphone/hardware isolation...
I would like to hear some input from some of you guys... give it a try, maybe your sanity might become less of an utopia when listening to your music on your MBP.
Cheers.
BTW I'm using a pair of Shure SE420 and I've also tried my sennheiser Px250 and my Shure E4C... all of this headphones have high impedances...