Hello,
I’ll start with the broader context. I’ve been using Logitech headphones for years, but my last pair was having a some annoying issues (mostly battery related), so I needed a new pair of headphones. About a month ago I bought some Audeze Maxwells because of how highly rated they were. I brought them home, plugged in the wireless receiver, and they worked fine. However they had a small issue where whenever sound would start playing, they would have a tiny click sound, as if they were clicking on or something, and every time sound stopped the same click sound could be heard. It was very quiet so it wasn’t too distracting, unless I had no background music constantly playing while being in a voice call, so every time someone would start talking there’d be a click, and every time they paused or stopped there’d be another click. It was getting frustrating.
Well a couple days ago I had to boot into Windows for something, and I figured I might as well download the Audeze software just cuz. It turns out there was a firmware update for my headphones, which I downloaded. When I switched back to Manjaro the clicking sound was completely gone!
This is where the current issue pops up: For the past couple days when I’d turn on my headphones, they wouldn’t quite connect properly or something. I’d have to go into Configure Audio settings, change them from “Analog Stereo Output” to “Digital Surround 5.1 Output,” at which point they would start making a distorted sound (I assume because it’s a Dolby proprietary encoding that Audeze doesn’t support), then I’d switch them back to Analog Stereo Output and they’d be working. Though today they stopped working at all on Manjaro. I was only able to get them working again by unplugging the wireless receiver and plugging them in via USB cord.
I’m just wondering if anyone has any ideas what the problem is and how to fix it?