Sonata headphone jack is reversed stereo?
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Sonata headphone jack is reversed stereo?
I have a Sonata with the front panel hooked up to my Asus K8V SE's onboard sound via the 10-pin front panel audio connector. It turns out that with my configuration, the left headphone is connected to the right channel and vice versa. Annoying, especially as there's no reverse switch in the sound driver.
I asked a friend about his and he has the same problem. Has this happened to you? (And what have you done about it?)
I asked a friend about his and he has the same problem. Has this happened to you? (And what have you done about it?)
Yep - same thing here. I "swapped" the left and right channels using a pair of converter cables from Radio shack. The cables have the stereo jack on one end and RCA connectors on the other. One cable has the male stereo jack, the other has the female stereo jack. Since the two cables that I had laying around were both male RCA's, it also required a pair of RCA gender changers (double-ended female RCA's). To get the channels to switch, just swap the RCA connectors around.
Annoying. Love the Sonata (after several mods), but Antec's wiring folks really screwed up. First the front panel Firewire ports were wrong, and not a single connector but a bunch of individual ones, then the stereo jack was backwards. Oh well.
Annoying. Love the Sonata (after several mods), but Antec's wiring folks really screwed up. First the front panel Firewire ports were wrong, and not a single connector but a bunch of individual ones, then the stereo jack was backwards. Oh well.
Judging from the picture Tibors posted, one can easily change the pin order in the cable's connector by using a small flathead screwdriver. Just take the motherboard's manual and locate which two pins are the left and right audio channels. Then just lift the relative plastic tabs on the cable's connector a bit, pull out the leads, and reverse them.
Cheers,
Jan
Cheers,
Jan
Same here. In fact if you use the connector pictured without using the single pin plugs, it's still backwards. Use the single pin plugs and you're good to go.
I've found that this is typical of a lot of motherboards. There's apparently no universal standard for motherboard I/O headers. Some I've found to work properly, some don't. Same with USB as the sound header.
I've found that this is typical of a lot of motherboards. There's apparently no universal standard for motherboard I/O headers. Some I've found to work properly, some don't. Same with USB as the sound header.
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According to the FAQ at Antec, they switched two wires in the firewire connector. Newer Sonata's don't have this problem anymore.
P.S. With my Sennheiser HD 520, you can just reverse the headphone on your head.
P.S. With my Sennheiser HD 520, you can just reverse the headphone on your head.