Fantastic explanation, thank you!

I suppose now I’m in the market for high-impedance in-ear headphones, lol. The hyper-x is nice around the house, but when I’m on campus it’d be nice to not need to lug around those and all my other stuff AND the deck.

For what its worth, I got the interference pretty badly with the old 3.5mm earbuds I used on my LCD deck. I honestly dont remember having that issue there. However, I used an over-the-ear headset, a Hyper-X I had lying around, and I did NOT get the interference. Like, not even a little. Maybe something to do with the nature of the cable on that set? I legit don’t have the proper technical knowledge to really get into detail on this.