ashikase
03-27-2003, 09:20 PM
I really want to love the tg50, but judging from many of the posts, it seems that Sony might have rushed this one. I like most of the things about it, but I've found a few problems, the biggest of which deals with the headphone jack.
When I plug headphones in, I can hear a loud pop when turning the device on and off. I hear a constant hissing sound, kind of like a weak AM station with dead air. Whenever I press a button, I get a buzzing sound. I can even hear it while playing audio, though the audio does drown it out a little. I have recorded a sample of it, available here:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~lrf22/tg50.mp3
In the sample, the initial pop is the device being turned on. Then you can hear the background static. The intermittent buzzing is button presses. Then there is another pop at the end when the device is turned off. Needless to say, this is unacceptable.
After I found this out, I went to BestBuy and checked out their demo model, and it had the same problem. I tried out the NX60 and NR70, and neither had the problem. What I want to know is, is this present on everyone else's TG50's?
As a side note... another problem I found... the Up/Down button.. it works fine when being pressed in Up direction (nice solid click when pressed), but doesn't work worth a darn when being pressed in Down direction (it seems that the button isn't aligned right).
Here's hoping it's just a bad first batch.
When I plug headphones in, I can hear a loud pop when turning the device on and off. I hear a constant hissing sound, kind of like a weak AM station with dead air. Whenever I press a button, I get a buzzing sound. I can even hear it while playing audio, though the audio does drown it out a little. I have recorded a sample of it, available here:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~lrf22/tg50.mp3
In the sample, the initial pop is the device being turned on. Then you can hear the background static. The intermittent buzzing is button presses. Then there is another pop at the end when the device is turned off. Needless to say, this is unacceptable.
After I found this out, I went to BestBuy and checked out their demo model, and it had the same problem. I tried out the NX60 and NR70, and neither had the problem. What I want to know is, is this present on everyone else's TG50's?
As a side note... another problem I found... the Up/Down button.. it works fine when being pressed in Up direction (nice solid click when pressed), but doesn't work worth a darn when being pressed in Down direction (it seems that the button isn't aligned right).
Here's hoping it's just a bad first batch.