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Had an issue with my MPC One headphone…
Had an issue with my MPC One headphone output buzzing. Without divulging too much, I work in a field where troubleshooting computer hardware and software is 30% of my daily job. I isolated the issue down to the daughterboard that hosts the SD card reader and the headphone jack as the issue did not occur on any other outputs. I "worked" with support over 2 months with having to contact multiple technicians every week to two weeks just to keep tickets moving along only for the unit to be sent out, then back telling me that I need to buy higher impedance headphones. The thing is: I actually have access to 2 other MPCs and owned a Live, another One, and tested a few Live IIs (all returned due to HORRIBLE SSD bays that couldn't even fit drives). None of these units had this problem with these headphones. The only response I got after reopening the ticket was to send it out for "repair" again, which resulted in being told I need to spend hundreds on new headphones that needed 60+ohms. Honestly, I put up with the 2014, low end phone hardware for the ease of working with this. But I'm going back to DAWs and if I'm doing hardware again, it's gonna be Roland or Native instruments.