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About Bobbert
Expertise
Questions regarding HTPC integration to home theaters, and general purchasing advice regarding home theater and audio systems, including headphones. Please no car audio or over the top PA systems.

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General enthusiast, ~10 years as an audio hobbyist

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Engineering major, various DIY experiences, personal hobby

 
   

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Home Theater - Pioneer VSX-D510


Expert: Bobbert - 10/31/2009

Question
I am building my audio system/mini-studio built around my computer, and am running all of my audio through an E-MU 1616m setup. Previously to purchasing my pioneer receiver secondhand, I was using a pair of MBQuart bookshelf speakers (which are passive) through the headphone jack of my E-MU microdock, with no real issues (aside from relatively little power making it to the speakers). I picked up the Pioneer receiver today, and have connected it from the ADAT optical port in the microdock to the optical/digital cd-in on the receiver. However, I now hear a semi-regular click perhaps every fifteen to thirty seconds.

Would this be the receiver? Is this a hardware issue, that could perhaps be resolved by switching ports or settings? Or would this be an issue that would require a more technical approach?

Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks ahead of time for your input.

Answer
Can you provide more information regarding this "click"? Is it a noise produced by the speakers, or within a component? (if within a component, which component?)

As an aside, I would never suggest powering speakers from a headphone driver, as the low impedance creates a fairly hard load for the device to drive, which means far more heat and power consumption, and the risk of damaging the device.

-bob


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