Headphones don't work

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eeeecko
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Headphones don't work

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Hi, I purchased a set of Plantronics DSP-500 headphones a few months ago. These headphones are very good quality like the sennheiser, except they use a USB port to connect. The Sennheiser headphones are very expensive and I see no need in buying another pair of high quality headphones when I already have some. Whenever I try to play an I-Doser Dose, no sound comes out like it's being muted... When I try and then play a song from another program such as itunes, the sound does not work there either. I have to disconnect the headphones and connect them into the USB port everytime I try using I-doser to get the sound to come back. Can someone please give me some help on how to solve this???
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Post by garrettw87 »

could have something to do with windows picking the correct device for output. because:
usb headphones (like any usb audio device) work quite differently from normal headphone-jack headphones, cuz they're not receiving a pure analog audio signal. basically there's a sound card of sorts inside usb headphones, and windows sees that like another sound card to output to. and then the output of that mini-sound card is piped to the speakers in the headphones.
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Post by giveaname »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Eexactly
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