Perhaps someone can advise on the following please:
- I copied the contents of all of my cd collection onto an H2 player via Windows Media Player on a Windows 10 laptop. All files were in wav format.
- I then listened to some of them using newly purchased Fiio FD3 earbuds. I found that I could only hear music in the right earbud by keeping my finger on the jack plug whilst it was in the H2. The sound was incredible and a vast improvement on my old Sansa Clip. I then repeated the same exercise with a cheap unbranded pair of earbuds to determine if it was a problem with earbuds or the H2.
- I got the same problem with the cheap earbuds, nothing out of the right earbud. So I presumed that it was a problem with the H2 unit.
- I contacted HiFi Walker who were brillant and sent me a brand-new boxed unit in exchange for the old one which I returned.
- I've just tried the new unit with both the FD3 and cheap earbuds and get the same problem. The only difference this time is that even if I keep my finger on the jackplug I still only get sound out of one earbud.
- If it was a problem with the recordings themselves I wouldn't have been able to get sound out of the right earbud when I kept my finger on the jackplug in the first scenario.
I'm puzzled as to what the problem is. Suggestions would be VERY much appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read all of this.
Kind regards
Hi there, I recall you reporting here that you had gotten the cool-looking H2. For reference, and to identify with your context, my first DAP, or "mp3 player", was a Sansa e280 (in 2007), I now use three DAPs (two HiBy and one Fiio unit), also run Windows, and I have the Fiio FH3 earphones, though I've never used WMP for any CD tasks, nor have I ever ripped to WAV or had WAV files (though I will be experimenting today). I've used MusicBee to rip hundreds of CDs and manage my entire digital collection since shortly after Zune went down in 2012. (I use Fiio Music, HiBy Music, and VLC to play my music on my DAPs and my Samsung phone, if software should matter here), Fortunately -and unfortunately here-, I have never experienced your problem, and I've never experienced a channel problem that was software-related, but then there are many audio matters I've never experienced or know much about.
Had your WAV files played well previously, on the H2 or anywhere, or has the H2 played any other formats? You can just rip one CD in another format or two to test @Jasonavich's interesting suggestion. I gather you described your problem in fair depth with the brilliant HiFiWalker (techs?) to have had them determine you required a new unit (impressive indeed). Did they know you were using WAV files? I do see at a head-fi. org forum thread, that the H2 does support Wav and "all popular format(s)". I strongly recommend the very-international head-fi.org forums as a resource, though I don't know how much H2 content they'd have. I've learned a LOT there on portable audio matters, including my DAPs.
Have you checked the cable connections on your Fiio FD3s, even though new? Do they play normally through other devices, including with but not limited to the same WAV files, even on your laptop or the Sansa Clip, for instance? (I do note you tried different earphones with the same effect, which seems to be a good control/check.)
That's all I have for now. Good luck troubleshooting your new H2, etc., and getting past this, which you will.
(An aside is that the right channel/earcup stopped working on my trusty Sony 7506s on one device I was using last month. I checked on other devices that day, and same thing. I put them aside and figured I'd lost them -a shame because I had just found new, excellent pads for them, and even an additional backup set. Reminded by your post, I tried using them today, and they are working normally -for now! Who knows?? Magic?? WHF channeling?? Thanks for the indirect reminder! Wish you
bonne chance, buena suerte, best of luck with your H2.)
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