I recently treated myself to a new laptop (HP G70-120EA) and a pair of shiny headphones (ATH-ANC7) and both were excellent until I put them together. I seem to be getting a lot of interference from the headphone port on my laptop which to say the least is incredibly annoying. Since this is a laptop I would imagine changing the soundcard is more trouble than it's worth/impossible, so what would be my best bet? What I have considered so far is buying a cheap amplifier, turning my laptop's volume right up and trying to drown out the interference, or getting a computer off Freecycle/Freegle installing a decent soundcard and either playing my music on that or piping all my audio to it over the network with PulseAudio or similar. There is also a HDMI port on my laptop would it be possible and cost effective to use that as my audio interface? Thanks btw, I run only Linux if that matters at all.
