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
I'm not being combative, I want to be educated on why CFA products are superior. All I see when I read this description of Lyra II is a single driver surrounded by really fancy materials that I interpret to convince audio enthusiasts that they must be top notch because the housing and driver assembly is made with an unpopular alloy.
My ATH's deliver incredible punch and and clear frequencies up to 40kHz (albeit with intervention from my DAC's equalizer to boost the highs). Am I to believe that Lyra II is able to give me a superior audio experience using a single driver at 3x the cost just because the materials used come from space?!?
I consent that number of drivers/BA's does not equal superior performance. Help a fellow lover of audio out!
I think there may be a bit of 'snobbery' and a bit of a pissing contest when it comes to BAs, particularly multi-driver BAs. Perhaps similar to people thinking planar or electrostatic cans are always better than dynamic cans simply because they're "hip" technologies.
A lot of BA drivers themselves are off-the-shelf units made by the likes of Knowles that anybody could buy. BAs also have very non-linear impedance (especially 3+ driver units) which make them VERY pissy to use with certain sources - typically, anything with 3+ drivers used with a DAP with >2.5 ohms output impedance is going to sound pretty bad. The Andromeda sounded underwhelming off my phone, and the SE846 sounded damn awful. Through a Fiio E12A with an 0.3 ohm output impedance, it's a different story. Even single-driver BAs have this issue, although not to that extreme.
So, I ask - why do dynamic drivers have to be cheap?
And thanks @thefitz for the info on BA impedance, I was not aware of that issue. I'll have to pay attention to that with my higher output impedance players.