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kingskel
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Jun 5, 2003, 05:21 PM
 
Yo all:

I'm heading (back) to school in the Fall. I'm bringing the iMac with all my tunes on it, but as I'm living in residence I don't want to blast le' tunage too loud. I'm considering getting wireless headphones, but it occurred to me: the iSub uses the USB port, and the wireless headphones will use the headphone port. Thus, I'll have to turn off the iSub every time I want to use the headphones. Two questions:

1. Is anyone aware of any way around this?

2. Can anyone reccommend a good - yet relatively inexpensive (I mean not $300) wireless headphones?


Cheers!
     
cdhostage
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Jun 6, 2003, 07:13 PM
 
Whenever anything, any 1/8 in audio plug, is plugged into an iMac's headphone port, all other sound-producing isntruments don't make sound. This is a fundamental thing to iMacs, and possibly with all Macintoshes - you can "disable" the loud startup sound by plugging in the headphones then starting up. Sound will only play through the headphones ports if anything is plugged in.

Note, anything - I tried it with an audio splitter cable attached to nothing and it made no sound.
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kingskel  (op)
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Jun 7, 2003, 08:27 AM
 
Thanks for your reply, but I'm not quite sure what your point is.

If I plug headphones in the headphone jack of my iMac (800mhz, 17inch), I still get bass from my iSub.
     
omarv
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Jun 8, 2003, 12:57 AM
 
I have the same problem, I haven't found away around it either, I ended just keeping the iMac hooked to my stereo and not using the isub
     
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Jun 8, 2003, 06:05 PM
 
kingskel -

There is a workaround and it's pretty easy to do.

1. Open your System Preferences
2. Select Startup Disk
3. Select Mac OS 9
4. Reboot

It's a problem with the iSub driver in OS X that the iSub will not turn off when you plug in headphones. Mac OS 9 does not have this issue and *will* silence your iSub when you plug in your headphones.

And now you're thinking, "yo, this doesn't help me at all dude."

My suggestion: write to Apple.

     
scottiB
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Jun 9, 2003, 09:07 AM
 
(edit): I missed that you suggested this in your original post. My bad, but I'll leave it.

System Preferences>Sound>Output

There's a checkbox to mute the iSub. I'll agree that it's not very elegant, but it's better than booting in OS 9.
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