A headphone audio fix for the Logitech USB Headset 350

Jul 13, '05 08:26:00AM

Contributed by: tollie

I read good reviews about the Logitech USB Headset 350, so I was dissapointed to have difficulty in getting its headphones to work consistently. The mic would work and the system reported no errors, but the headphones would get no sound.

Opening Audio Midi Setup and toggling from '2ch-16bit' to '1ch-16bit' (pausing to adjust the volume to cause it to make noise, just because) and then back to '2ch-16bit' seems to make it work consistently. For what it's worth, as far as sound quality goes, I agree with the reviewers in giving them a reasonable thumbs-up.

I didn't experience the sound problems that came about with the 10.3.8 update, but I know it had equally obscure fixes (eg. launch GarageBand and make noise). Can anyone provide insight as to why things aren't so much "it just works" with the audio?

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