Headphone signal weak.

I've had a pair of Hama headphones for 3-4 years that I have been using, mainly, for BBC
programmes.

The last few months, I have been unable to raise a sufficiently strong signal. I've changed the batteries, just in case. The cable from the computer is the same as the one I use for my loudspeakers, which work fine.

When I used the headphones, I turned full on, so as to catch the signal. Now I detect, just by listening---nothing scientific---that the maximum volume is not quite so much as before. Nevertheless, if I get somewhere else, like a song on You Tube, it comes on OK and, then, I can get the BBC, for a while. Then it is likely to crash, again, after a short while.

It seems obvious that the signal is weaker but, should I renew the headphones, or just resign myself that the BBC no longer sends such a strong signal?

Split

Happy Sunday

Split,respectfully, are you just not going deaf ?

Personally ,I've just upgraded ,and I can receive Red Hot Dutch on these too!

Pump up The Volume

Crap Buddist said:

Split,respectfully, are you just not going deaf ?

Personally ,I've just upgraded ,and I can receive Red Hot Dutch on these too!

Pump up The Volume

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God, what we Senior Citizens have to put up with from the upstarts, these days!

I can hear, perfectly, what the youth are tuned into when I sit near them on the Underground and, besides, there's a red light that comes on when the headset is getting reception.

CB,

That's naughty.

Split,

If you're listening to the BBC World Service, it's been going down hill since they stopped playing the 'Lily Bolero' interlude and tried to become 'funky' - it's truly awful.

The best English language broadcasts are Voice of India (or Radio India International) and the Chinese equivalent.I'm not 100% certain of the names but if they sound like they're addressing dumb tourists (like the World Service) you have the wrong station. Google 'International Radio'.

Grant.



Grant.

grantx said:

CB,

That's naughty.

Split,

If you're listening to the BBC World Service, it's been going down hill since they stopped playing the 'Lily Bolero' interlude and tried to become 'funky' - it's truly awful.

The best English language broadcasts are Voice of India (or Radio India International) and the Chinese equivalent.I'm not 100% certain of the names but if they sound like they're addressing dumb tourists (like the World Service) you have the wrong station. Google 'International Radio'.

Grant.



Grant.

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Jeez, that's years ago! No matter what they say about Beeb, if I can't receive them, there's nothing else worth listening to. Their choice of subjects that can be repeated from their archives is immense. I'm thinking of getting a headphones with cable but you don't have the liberty of movement.

I, really, do miss my wireless headphones.

Split

Splitlink said:

God, what we Senior Citizens have to put up with from the upstarts, these days!

I can hear, perfectly, what the youth are tuned into when I sit near them on the Underground and, besides, there's a red light that comes on when the headset is getting reception.

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Understand, I noticed you had your birthday the other week mate. To be honest my own hearing is not what it used to be, i often get that ringing, muffled sound especially in one ear, too much loud music, had them syringed once.

I've always played the clown Split (I think thats obvious, lol), dont tell me ,when i knock on I gotta tone it down? I try not to see chronological age .

I included myself in the ugrade That sort of thing makes me titter, the foolishness of it all.

hmm Split those headphones when you have them on do they block out the sound of the wife effectively ? or does one still need to go to a nightclub for a bit of "peace"? I might be a buyer if they work.Tryin to watch a film here and the wifes doing my nut in. hmmm How much are flights to Spain. I wonder.

cheers.

Crap Buddist said:

Understand, I noticed you had your birthday the other week mate. To be honest my own hearing is not what it used to be, i often get that ringing, muffled sound especially in one ear, too much loud music, had them syringed once.

I've always played the clown Split (I think thats obvious, lol), dont tell me ,when i knock on I gotta tone it down? I try not to see chronological age .

I included myself in the ugrade That sort of thing makes me titter, the foolishness of it all.

hmm Split those headphones when you have them on do they block out the sound of the wife effectively ? or does one still need to go to a nightclub for a bit of "peace"? I might be a buyer if they work.Tryin to watch a film here and the wifes doing my nut in. hmmm How much are flights to Spain. I wonder.

cheers.

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Buy her some flowers.

Split,

Lily Bolero was still played 5 - max 10 - years ago.

CB,

"wifes doing my nut in". Women - can't live 'em, can't murder 'em.

Grant.

grantx said:

Split,

Lily Bolero was still played 5 - max 10 - years ago.

CB,

"wifes doing my nut in". Women - can't live 'em, can't murder 'em.

Grant.

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I remember---horrible!

It was on Radio 4. I used to tune into the World Service at that time of the morning so as not to have to listen to it.

Well, I can see that you lot don't know anything about headphones or keeping wives happy. :cheesy:

Lily Bolero ? never heard the name, I will have a google though, was she a porn star or something?

lol you guys are cheeky and direct, ehh, ehh...

Tell you what many a night of drifting off to "sailing by" music wow, Iconic time stamp that for me, and i'm not that old I guess, but sure is very something comforting to me about that music, I often used to think of (especially i think when there was talk of ceasing the music) all the generations of people laying quietly and listening to the sound of sailing by, and all the memories it must of triggered in others,over all the years, like other people they have known in their own lives, sailing by.

Its a banging tune... !

Split,

"Horrible"? No. Days of empire - Lord Kithchener shooting the fuzzy-wuzzies; Lord Caernarvon directing excavations, confident in his jodhpurs; the Belgians in the Congo slaughtering little children. That's when we were proud to British.

Db,

Totally agree re 'Sailing by'. Apart from two programmes (Open Country and Beyond Belief) the only thing worth listening to.

Grant.