Aurora R6 buzzing noise when headphones connected in front panel

Found another thread with the same problem. ( ) Hopefully this is just a matter of changing the front panel. Note that I plugged my headphones in the rear and there is no background noise whatsoever. Beautiful.

Hi, 

It does sound like a hardware problem. Send me your Service Tag in a PM so we can check on the repair options. 

As I said in that other thread, high quality (clean) analog audio on computers has been hard to do since like forever (due to EMF/EMI and lack of shielding). Also, consumers expectations on audio quality is always getting higher.

One solution is to re-run the Front_Audio cable isolated by itself. If you have enough slack, even better on other side of case (between metal case frame and plastic external covers). Metal case becomes a shield between analog audio cable and high-speed electronics. See Service Manual for assembly info. A ferrite core on cable might also help (certainly couldn't hurt). 

As far as that Aurora-R5 having a bad part. It could have just been isolated to some first-run models and was corrected on later Aurora-R5 models. I would be very surprised if it made it to the Aurora-R6 models months later. 
 
If you must stick with analog, this Speaker Switch is nice. Is also solves the problem of having to physically un-plug the front-jack headphones whenever you want to use rear analog speakers.

Most users are instead moving to digital-USB "sound cards". Or, USB-headphones (sound-card circuit is in USB cable). With headphones on USB and Speakers on rear analog, you end-up with two "sound cards". This enables you to click and switch between them from SystemTray (without unplugging anything). Pretty nice.

My posts (and links) is this thread might help as well.

Audio Driver for Aurora R6 

Another example of evolving audio systems is your Home Theater setup ... how many old-school analog stereo RCA cables do you see? Or, is mostly everything digital HDMI and SPDIF?

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i agree with Tesla1856 .

Re-routing the Audio Cable would be my Suggestion as well. maybe even get a HD Audio Extension Cable with more Layers. connect it inbetween the Header and the Connector and hide the old Cable somewhere far away from the Graphics Card. it could be still the Audio Chip itself. i would just grab something else then. USB Card, Headset or Speakers. i'm using HyperX Cloud 2 Headset and Creative Sound Blaster X Kratos S5 Speakers. both are connected via USB and have their own Sound Cards.

Hi, thanks for the snappy responses. I don't seem to have any option to PM. In the meantime I will try what Tesla suggested. 

Hi ‌, 

I'm sorry about that, you should be able to send me a PM now. 

Excuse me, but how do you plug in your headphons into the back? I can't seem to find a headphone jack.  

See pages 12-13 in Aurora-R6 Setup & Specs PDF Manual.

Analog stereo-out is 1/8-inch socket #9 (mine is green).