Can't hear certain fragments of a song, please help

Lathlaer · September 11, 2018

OK, here is the problem - my DAC/AMP is currently undergoing repairs because it simply stopped working. Right now my Focal Elear headphones are connected to front audio port via jack adapter (since they have 6.35mm jack natively).

Recently I've been checking some YT songs by Queen and here is the culprit:

Fast forward to 2:05 part of the song - there is a whole section about Oberon and Titania in lyrics which I can't hear on my headphones. It sounded weird to me because I know this song and I remember it being hearable. To test my theory I just used my Samsung S9, played the video and voila, I can hear it.

Can someone point out where the problem might be? Some system settings, the fact that going through front audio is crappy, faulty headphones?

Oh and btw. when I search the song on YT and found a different version (probably lower quality one), I can hear it just fine. It's this specific one and I'm wondering what's going on.

vanished · September 11, 2018

Those words exist exclusively in the right channel from what I can tell. Is it possible that due to a slight error in how your headphones are plugged in, or how the adapter you're using was made, that what you're hearing is just the left channel cloned to both right and left cups?

Lathlaer · September 11, 2018

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Is it possible that due to a slight error in how your headphones are plugged in, or how the adapter you're using was made, that what you're hearing is just the left channel cloned to both right and left cups?

Holy shit, yeah, this is it. I don't know why yet but I just opened the Asus SupremeFX and voila, can't hear the right channel. Thanks for pointing me the right direction!

EsaT · September 11, 2018

9 hours ago, Lathlaer said:

To test my theory I just used my Samsung S9, played the video and voila, I can hear it.

Did you connect headphones to it?

In that case fault shouldn't be in adapter.

Have you tried them in motherboard's rear connector?

(green)

Front audio port of case or its wiring might well be faulty.

Lathlaer · September 11, 2018

38 minutes ago, EsaT said:

Did you connect headphones to it?

In that case fault shouldn't be in adapter.

Have you tried them in motherboard's rear connector?

(green)

Front audio port of case or its wiring might well be faulty.

No, I just tested the song on the phone without headphones to check if this is perhaps kinda different version of it than I remember.

I readjusted the the cables and settings in the Supreme FX and it seems to be OK for now. I'm not happy with how it sounds but now at least it works. Regrettably I can't insert it to the back of my mobo because of the way my chassis is constructed - there is a glass enclosure and all cables go kinda under it and the jack+adapter take too much space. Front audio only.

I will suffer through because I should be getting my Audio-GD back in a few days and then it will be back to optical connection.

As a side note, not having a manual way of adjusting headphones volume via DAC/AMP is so incredibly annoying that I'd buy one just for that

EsaT · September 11, 2018

4 minutes ago, Lathlaer said:

As a side note, not having a manual way of adjusting headphones volume via DAC/AMP is so incredibly annoying that I'd buy one just for that

If paying more than cheapest membrane keyboard price, you should choose keyboard with dedicated physical volume control.

After all that's where you fingers/hands usually are, or at least close.

Though as emergency solution NirCMD could be use for making "hotkeys" for changing volume by making desktop shortcuts for volume change commands and adding shortcut key for executing it.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/create-a-shortcut-or-hotkey-to-turn-off-the-monitor/