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Medusa 5.1 problems, not with sound, but with static

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Dear People,

I have been using my Medusa headset for a while now, and I love it except one thing. And thats the thing that the headset detects every mobile phone near it, and it lets you hear those phones do their connection thingy when they either make a connection with their networks, or just polling the networks.

It gives the exact same sound when you put a mobile phone near a speaker thats like old or bad and then when someone calls you hear the signal in the speaker.

Now here at home that is not a big problem. But when I take my medusa to a lan party with about 350 people there, its hell, I just cant use it there because I constantly hear those frigging signals in the headset.

Soooo my question is. NR1 does anyone have the same problem??

NR2 does anyone know a solution for this problem??

Greetingss from DrDEathhand

Owww maby you need to know my sys specs.

For a just a little while il still have this

CAse: Thermaltake Armor 8000A
PSU : Enermax Liberty 620W
Motherboard = Asus A8N32 SLI Bios version 1103
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Toledo
CPU Cooler : ZALMAN 9500A
RAM : 2 GIG Corsair 3500LL PRo
Graphics card: XFX GeForce 7900GTX 512MB DDR3 Extreme Edition
(PV-T71F-YDE (9,R))
Soundcard: Creative Labs XFI Music
DVD drive= Nec 5800D
CDWriter= NEC 4570
Monitor = Dell 21 inch Triniton P1100 100mhz refreshrate 1024 768 rez
network card= onboard
Harddisk = 2x Western Digital Caviar SE WD2000JS, 200GB (7200rpm, SATA II, 8MB)
2x Western Digital Caviar SE WD320JS 320 GB (7200rpm, SATA II, 16MB)
Internet connection = ADSL 8 mbit down, 1024kbs up

OS = WINXP with SP2 (fresh install) and all recent patches and updates from windows

update
DirectX version = 9c
Chat programs = MSN messenger ( Ver 7.5 )
Anti Virus program = Norton Anti Virus 2006
Vid card drivers = Detonator 93.71 WHQL
Soundcard drivers = latest version
Internet explorer version = 6.0.2900.2180 with SP2
Mail program used = Outlook Express

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Interference is usually the result of a "rouge" signal leaking through a weakly or unproperly shielded cable. In your case their may or may not be a specific part of the wire that connects from your sound card to the amp then to the headphones. If its still under warranty, I would try and have it replaced. Has it always done this since you first bought it? In that case it might mean that the entire wire system does not have adequate shielding. I'd replace the 3.5 jack that goes from the sound card to the amp, and perhaps somehow try insulating the wire that goes to the headphones if that is the case. See if you can isolate at all where exactly the noise is entering your headphone cables.

Also I have to ask, does disabling/enabling the built in microphone have any effect? And have you tried using different audio sources ie: mp3 player/other pc etc to see if it still has interference?

Reply to MafiaAce

not too sure myself... but it sounds like the headset you have is wireless... ...if it infact is wireless, im not sure theres any real way to cut out the radio interference, TBH... because i believe wireless devices have to accept all radio interferences (i believe)

i mean... if its at all possible to use a different frequency range on your headset, that might help... ...but, this is all assuming your headset is wireless to begin with

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Dear Choirbass,

Nope I do not have a wireless headset, its just the usual standard Medusa 5.1 headset with the amplifier with it.

And Dear Maffia Ace,

Thanks for your advice, I am going to check out the cables and stuff, and well if I cant find it then hmzzz this headset is going out the door and I might buy a new one.

And enabling disabling the microphone does not have any effect, the phone noise comes in when ever and whatever you are doing at the moment with the headset.

GReetingss from DrDeathhand

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