
Alternately, an if you can provide isolated power from the power supply, that may also help.

The best way to avoid this is to use interfaces that have isolated DACs and ADCs (should be listed as a feature) that are given a solid, constant reference level to work from independent of the power variations occurring within the rest of the hardware. FOR SALE Sound Card External Sound Card 5HV2 Sound Card USB7. You get the same thing on a lot of computer sound cards and you can notice that it changes frequency when things take power in the computer such as intense processing or hard drive operation. SOUND CARD EXTERNAL Sound Card 5HV2 Sound Card USB7.1 Sound Card With Cable - 14.00. These variations are what you are hearing with that noise. If the internal circuitry of the interface and the actual capture or playback circuitry share a common power supply, the operation of the electronics itself cause a distortion to the power being supplied to the capture or playback circuits.Ĭapture and output both rely on a fixed reference level and if this level is not constant, it introduces variations in the actual signal produced. Bought this fix a Realtech audio problem that wasted MANY hours of my time I plugged this in. That is the result of bad isolation of either the DAC or the ADC. 7.1 USB Audio Adapter Sound Card with SPDIF Digital Audio. High-pitched whining is a common problem across many USB devices but there don't seem to be any answers other than "ground loop." It isn't a ground loop. I've tried putting a powered USB hub between it and the computer and that didn't help.

#5HV2 USB SOUND CARD ISSUES PRO#
It happens on my mac pro when it is running from battery or when plugged in, on a 2006 original Mac Pro, and on my AMD-based desktop, always exactly the same noise, same pitch. This happens when recording with things plugged in and with nothing plugged in with all possible configurations of the box (phantom power, monitoring, gain, line level, etc.) That high-pitched noise is in common between many brands of audio interfaces, as you can hear recordings on Google. I have an M-Audio M-Track, a $100 USB-based audio interface.Īcross all 3 computers I have tried it on, there is a high-pitched whine around 1kHz, similar to the one here:

Problems can arise when your hardware device is too old or not supported any longer.
#5HV2 USB SOUND CARD ISSUES DRIVER#
I've yet to find a definitive answer to this, but Google shows hundreds of people asking questions. Download SteelSeries 5Hv2 USB Headset Audio Driver 1.0.4 (Sound Card).
