Headphone jack to stereo sounds nasty

I have an iPad 3 and today bought a headphone jack to RCA plugs cable to connect it to my stereo and pipe Pandora through it. I know RCA isn't the best, but it's the only input my receiver has available, and the record player, CD player, radio, and cassette tape deck all sound great. But when playing anything with vocals from Pandora via the iPad, it sounds like the vocalist is underwater. Very uneven sound levels too, but not all the time. Anyone else experience this? It's annoying enough to NOT use it at all.

Have you tried a different set of headphones?
It is apparently a connection problem... this could either be due to the headphones, or the iPod's headphone jack. If another set of headphones gives you the same problem, you will apparently need service on your ipod - is it still under warranty?

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Cobra wrote:
I just got a new computer with a Foxconn TLA-776 case that has microphone/headphone jacks on the front. There are 7 seperate plugs that come from these jacks. Ground, Right Out, Right Return, Left Out, Left Return, Mic Power, and Mic In. I tried plugging these into the white connector on the card with 0 pins, but they didn't fit correctly. Is there somewhere else these connectors are supposed to plug into on the card? They were originally plugged into the motherboard's onboard sound.
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Help! red light from headphone jack and strange sound issues!

Help! I use my baby for listening to music and watching DVDs almost constantly when I'm working, and just the other day it started doing something really odd whenever I start doing something that involves sound!
If I'm listening to a song, watching a DVD, playing a game, whatever, as long as it involves sound it does this. What happens is, it'll be fine for up to a minute, and then it starts making this staticky skipping noise and losing the tracking on whatever it is I'm doing (game, song, DVD, etc.). This happens whether I've got headphones or speakers plugged in, or I'm using the laptop speakers. Also, a red light flashes from INSIDE the headphone jack with every staticky noise.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302153
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Hey,
I have asked this question 3 times in the headphone jack thread but no one has helped, so i'm hoping i'd get more success starting a new topic.
I am having the headphone jack error, where sound cuts out because one of the four 'connectors' has come loose, however the jack itself has come off now, and with it a small strip from inside, which I can't get back inside. Without this strip it appears I can get no sound whatsoever, but I don't know why because it dosn't look like it connects to anything in the jack. This is the picture :
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hope this helps you.Message Edited by 337 on 08-09-2006 07:39 AMMessage Edited by 337 on 08-09-2006 07:4 AM

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