

You can hear it best when you have nothing connected to the amplifier or receiver apart from a loudspeaker and turn the volume down. This is because an amplifier always emits a basic or inherent sound. So, first check either your A/V receiver or amplifier. Instead, it’s the input devices where the cause can be found. Passive sound transducers that are dependent on an input device don’t cause a hum or hiss.

It’s important to tell the difference between hissing and humming, as they have different causes and mainly occur in the subwoofer. One of the most well-known is white noise. But together with the rather big blunder with the Home Mini, it seems that Google’s big product launch is turning out to be a big PR mess.We can often hear when our speakers hum or hiss, but what’s actually going on? These annoying sounds are caused by simultaneous sound waves that are produced with completely different frequencies and sound levels. Whether or not these devices shipped despite failing quality control is now less important than actually shipping out the fixes for these issues. Google has not yet responded to the product forum thread and might already have its hand full with the other reports regarding the Pixel 2 XL. And like any workaround, it doesn’t seem to work for everyone affected. The bad news is that the high-pitched whining sound doesn’t. Turning off the NFC seems to make the clicking go away. While majority of those who confirmed the issue were on Pixel 2s, some Pixel 2 XL owners did chime in to report the same.įortunately there does seem to be a more or less confirmed workaround. Here, having the Pixel 2 simply unlocked did triggered the issue. This almost calls to mind the recent iPhone 8 bug, though that only happened when actually taking a voice call.

The sound seemingly came from the earpiece speaker. Those circumstances include having the screen on, the phone unlocked, and the phone held up like taking a call. A Pixel 2 owner by the name of “Roy M.” posted on the Google product forums to report that his Pixel 2 was emitting a high-pitch frequency sound as well as clicking under a specific set of circumstances.
