X-fi headphone detection question.

[Brando]

This may very well be a ridiculous thing to ask but I just don't get it. In the X-fi drivers there are 2 boxes you can check that let you "automatically mute speakers" and "automatically enable headphone settings" WHEN HEADPHONE JACK IS CONNECTED". According to the instruction book the headphone jack is the same hole as the speaker jack. I'd really like to figure this out so I don't have to keep unplugging my headphones, plugging in my speakers, and changing to 2 speaker mode every time I want sound from my main entertainment center (and vice versa). Help? :confused: Thanks!

[Stillhouse]

1. Use 2/2.1 channel instead of the headphone setting. All the headphone setting really does is raise the output level a bit.

2. Get a Plantronics .Audio PC Switch (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826265015). Lets you have speakers and headphones connected without potentially losing sound quality like with splitters.

[TTP]

there's a check box that enable/disable that function under my XFi tab in the control panel. Do you not have that?

I plug my headphone into my HT receiver so I don't have that contention issue.

[Charr]

This may very well be a ridiculous thing to ask but I just don't get it. In the X-fi drivers there are 2 boxes you can check that let you "automatically mute speakers" and "automatically enable headphone settings" WHEN HEADPHONE JACK IS CONNECTED". According to the instruction book the headphone jack is the same hole as the speaker jack. I'd really like to figure this out so I don't have to keep unplugging my headphones, plugging in my speakers, and changing to 2 speaker mode every time I want sound from my main entertainment center (and vice versa). Help? :confused: Thanks!

That is for any front panel audio. If your front panel audio has individual pins, you won't need to buy/make an adapter.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=107388

[Brando]

All good ideas. Thanks for the input I'll look into it. My main concern is whether or not the headphone jack pins make use of the uber opamp I had installed on line out 1 of the card.

[nd4spdbh2]

1. Use 2/2.1 channel instead of the headphone setting. All the headphone setting really does is raise the output level a bit.

2. Get a Plantronics .Audio PC Switch (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826265015). Lets you have speakers and headphones connected without potentially losing sound quality like with splitters.

LOL you could make that switch with 3 bucks worth of parts.

That is for any front panel audio. If your front panel audio has individual pins, you won't need to buy/make an adapter.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=107388

U must note that in order to make use of the auto muting you must have a front pannel audio jack type of the new HD audio format, the difference is in the jack in which there is a sensing circuit to mute the back pannel and not just a redirection of the actual audio signal.