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Strange sound effect on Clip+.

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bertrik:
Your symptoms are still consistent with a flaky common connection between the headphones and the player (not with shorted out headphone wires IMO).
This way, it appears as if the L and R speakers in the headphones are wired in series receiving the difference of the L and R signal (L-R). Any signal common to the L and R signals will be cancelled out and both headphones carry the same signal, explaining the karaoke effect (vocals are often equally present in the L and R channel, except for some reverb). A mono signal is defined by L=R, so that's consistent (L-R=0) with the mono setting being silent.

Is this pair of headphones still working OK on other players?

Perhaps there's something bent inside the socket, and the plug of the powered speaker is a bit thicker (so still making contact) than the headphones plug.

sexton:
Well I finally pulled myself together disassembled my clip+ and poked around until i found that if i bridged the outermost headphone socket connector to the pad around the mounting screw the sound came back to what it should be, so a little solder bridge has fixed it. ;D

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