Mini Firewire Caution

[rorry]

If you listen to my WHATS THIS NOISE? thread you can here a high pitch tone in the background. This tone would change depending on which latency setting I used.
I though it was the LAPTOP fan. I was wrong! It is the fire wire connector interaction with the socket. My 18 month old son discovered this for me when he bumped it and the noise stopped.
the fire wire mini jack is just not designed to stay perfectly still in its socket.The only way to keep it in place perfectly is to tape it down but even then the slightest anything would start the noise again.

So the answer is I bought a pc express card with a full size fire wire socket.
this eliminates the plug/socket movement and offloads the fire wire duties to the express card leaving me more CPU for running audio. Yee Haa!

[brandondrury]

Interesting. I've never heard of loose Firewire connections causing noise before, but I'll add that to the noggin'. I'm glad you got it worked out and thanks for the update!

Brandon