Sennheiser PC37X randomly goes bad after disconnecting the cable ?
Greetings, Yesterday I was using my headset like normal with my macbook, just listening to music and on a call with people like usual, and the headset was perfectly fine. The stock wire that came with the headset is extremely long and yesterday it annoyed me very much that it kept getting tangled with itself, so I decided to see if the cable is replaceable. I pulled out the cable from the headset and saw the adapter, and looked online for a replacement. Upon plugging it back in, the audio sounded extremely muffled and washed out. Im not sure what I did wrong to make it mess up like that as I've always taken good care of it, ive had it for about 2 years and its always just been chilling on my desk, but anywho I thought the cable just went bad and ordered a replacement. The replacement came, and the issue is still persistant, so I am not sure what the issue is I've tried multiple different headsets and the issue is not with the port, and I also tried it with my windows laptop and...
Apr 23, 2024
Seriously, just get a chromecast audio: it handles 16 and 24 bit lossless audio over wifi, and if you don't like its DAC, you can dump the optical signal straight from the chromecast to a DAC of your choice. Oh, and its 35 bucks.
I love massdrop and I've upped my headphone and headphone amp game considerably with great massdrop products, but this particularly offering is not up to snuff, and massdrop should help users unfamiliar with bluetooth transport and bluetooth audio compression formats to better understand what this device is, and is not, capable of doing.