Bad buzz around the iPod touch
I have an iPod touch. I also have a set of dock speakers by Emerson Research to enjoy my tunes without having to plug in a pair of headphones. On top of it all, I have apps such as Pandora and AOL Radio installed on my iPod so I can listen to my Pandora station, and KKHH in Houston so I can get my Booker & Sarah fix every morning. I can’t stand using the internet radio apps with my dock speakers because of debilitating interference due to the Wi-Fi radio transmitter. It manifests itself as this horrible buzzing noise anytime the Wi-Fi radio is on, effectively decreasing my enjoyment of said tunes. This is the second iPod-enabled device I’ve had and the same thing happened to the first, but the other one was so badly put together that it eventually stopped working after about a week. What can I do to get around this? Does anyone else have this problem? And does Apple care?
Update, 9/14/08: I have just purchased a Memorex alarm clock radio/iPod dock and there’s no buzzing. Guess my other one was just a POS.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:11 am
If I were you, I would use a 1/8″ headphone cable to connect the two devices. It’s not ideal, but you (probably) wouldn’t have to deal with the buzz anymore.