Yesterday I discovered that my new N95 produces quite a big amount of static when listening to music with cheap earphones like the ones you get with an iPod. I was really disappointed.
Even more because the first time I was listening to music on the N95, I was using my Sennheiser headphones (HD 435), which have a higer impedance, so the static was not that much noticable. If I listen to music again now, I can clearly notice the static though. It really bugs me, as this is already my second device with a static problem. I had a Palm Lifedrive, which had awful static.
So what I want to know is if your N95 also produces static sound. You can test it with an easy song and the volume set to only 10%. And please be using some kind of cheap earphones, because they bring out static at its finest 😞
Come on, just say your N95 does or does not have static hiss when you listen to music. Can't believe noone would answer to this thread.
Yes, N95 sound quality is awful, especially after hearing an N91. So much hiss its shocking. I actually get a better signal to noise ratio using bluetooth headphone, but with intermittant connection. No win. :icon13:
The background hiss on the headphone jack is a common problem on the N95.
You have 2 solutions to the problem - use a Bluetooth headphone or add a level attenuator. You can get level attenuators from either Radioshack or Shure. See picture below:
Radioshack Gold-Plated Volume Control Cable for Stereo Headphones:
Shure Attachable Volume Control:
Hi Maticek
Sorry i really don't get it we all know using cheap headphones is never going to give good results so why would you want to use them. I use a pair of Shure EC2g which cost under �40 and the resulting sound qaulity with 160kbps AAC music is nothing short of stunning. Just use well encoded Music and a good set of headphones and there is no problem no need to start adding extra bits of equipment either.
Marc
It's not a cheap headphone problem, there are duff N95s with hissing over the 3.5mm jack as myauto mentions. I use Shure E4Cs and still get the hissing. Whether I use cheap iPod earphones, some sub �20 Panasonic earphones or a pair of Plantronics headphones, the hiss is there...even if I pass the audio out to my PCs line in, mic input or to the PC speakers, I still get hiss.
As has been mentioned the only way I can get rid of the hiss is to use the attenuator that came with the Shures. I turn up the volume on the phone to the point where hiss is drowned out by the music and then use the attenuator to control the volume so I don't go deaf 😊
Really think that the hissing is a firmware issue.. I am sure that when I originally bought the phone (in V10) did not hiss as bad as the current V12 firmware.
Sigh.. NOKIA!!!
Yes, this has nothing to do with the quality of the headphones, I hear the hiss on earbud style phones, as well as my sennheiser HD25's(about �100).
I'm getting a short digital click sound right at the start of most songs. Anyone else get this? Is that static or something else?
I hear the same click if I press any buttons on the phone whilst playing music. And I think I can occaisionally just hear them whilst music is playing, there's like two or three of them at a time, rather than the regular singular one at the begining of the track.
Should I try another sd card or is it the phone?
When I first played music I'd downloaded on the supplied headphones there was the most awful hiss but when I put the upgraded one in it disapeared.
I'm just playing with the phone as I type this and I note that if I've paused a track, when I press the menu buttons I get that click followed by some sort of electrical hum for a couple of seconds before it disappears. Does anyone else get this? In fact I'm now noticing hum coming through on vey quiet passages. Have I got a faulty one or is everyone experiencing this?
Thanks for any suggestions.