It sounds like there’s a little motorcycle riding around in my earbuds. The frequency changes with the brightness of the screen. I play 100% with headphones so I have to return it, but if they all (or a significant percentage) of OLED units have this problem then I’ll just return it and not get another one right now.

Edit: it’s good to hear that not everyone has this problem. I’d be curious for those people who aren’t having the problem to test with a bright white screen. Mine gets worse as the brightness of the screen increases.

Edit 2: I used a MillSO 1/4” to 3.5mm adapter and my Sennheiser HD558s and I can’t hear the buzzing like I can with my Apple earbuds.

  • ThatLastGenGamer@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    What we know for sure is that there have finally been enough complaints for Valve Support to start changing their tune slightly. They seem to be transitioning from “it’s within spec” to “we know a few people have this problem and we’ll take yours in for repair”. This was my own case and I have requested a replacement unit with this specific problem corrected before shipping out to me. I did not pay MSRP to have to send anything back for repair after a week because of their QA oversight.

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    Having said that, I’m glad people in here are saying theirs are fine. I still doubt that because, through my own testing, there are headphones which simply do not make the issue noticeable at all. In my case, only a pair of Beyerdynamic DT-770 250ohm hides it completely. All others - Sennheiser HD 598 and 560S, Koss Porta Pro, Moondrop Quarks, Hyperx Cloud II, Soundcore Life Q30 (wired) - exhibit the problem to varying degrees.

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    Since it is most obvious when plugging in efficient headphones, earbus or IEMs and considering that most people will plug in cheap pairs of earbuds they have in their backpack with a portable system, I would really like to know what their target gear was for this device.

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    If I don’t get a replacement unit without a single hint of this manufacturing defect, I will be refunding it and trying again in a few months’ time when they may have possibly corrected this in their production process.