Headphone noise

when i plug my headphones into my jack (i have a logitech x530) i have some noise, sort of a crackling sound that really distracts from the experience.

when playing music its ok, but in quiet scenes in movies its really annoying.
for your information my headphones are a Koss. (btw i checked the Koss is OK, plugged it into my Ipod)

is there any way around this?

random noise from the soundcard? I'm not an expert but I have a similar problem...

Do you have a deticated sound card? or are you using the plug that's on your mother board?

Ah now that I came to think of it, I'm using the shit that's integrated in the mobo (I'm >>2 btw). Must be that.

i have a sound blastic live. also i find there are more sounds if i move the mouse. i stop the mouse, and the additional noise stops as well.

i plug the headphones into the jack thats avaliable on the logitech.

>>5
blaster. wtf lol.

>>1
Open the mixer (run: sndvol32), go Options+Properties, check all boxes, and then disable and slide to the minimum everything you don't use, especially CDAudio and PC Speaker. You probably only need the global one (leftmost) and Wave.

Also open the sound control panel applet (run: mmsys.cpl), go to the Audio tab, click all the advanced buttons and in the windows they pop up, navigate the tabs if any to find quality sliders, which you should set all the way to the right if they aren't.

>>7
you are my saviour :D

thanks a bunch and have a cookie!

I just thought of something, do you have a microphone connected to your comp?

>>9
nope