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
This 7.1 is indeed virtual surround.
By having the Sound Blaster E5 now appear as a 7.1 device at the system level (before it would only appear as a stereo device) game engines and the OS can feed our surround algorithm the 7.1 streams and this allows for a MUCH more immersive and convincing experience. The streams go to the E5 and the E5 takes those streams and then creates a virtual 7.1 experience over your headphones.
At the risk of sounding too snarky here...the reason why "some surround features" sound like an echo layer from the "other guys" is that most are just adding a reverb effect to broaden the soundstage. With SBX Surround powered by an actual audio processor we're able to create a much more convincing psycho acoustic binaural effect that is much more convincing when it comes to simulating location based audio. You can read several reviews about our tech versus other folks. We hang our hat on the technologies we've been developing for over 30 years and have dedicated engineers and audio scientists developing and refining the tech every day.
Our rationale was if we CAN add it to the E5 then we should as it was a feature that was highly requested from the user base of the E5. Originally we targeted the E5 to focus on the stereo output as the audio enthusiast crowd tends to gravitate towards "pure stereo" devices (or a large segment of the user base does) and is looking for the best possible accuracy to the source material. So we did just that with the E5.
And THEN we added our tech on top of it once we established the E5 on the hardware level with the audio purists. With the E5 you have the option to experience the best of both worlds . Audio purity or enhanced audio for entertainment and immersion.
Both devices are designed for headphones, neither device has the connections for 8 speakers or the Dolby/DTS encoding to put 7.1 channels through optical to a home theater receiver... though the optical port can be used if you separately buy Dolby or DTS encoding software for your computer (don't quote me/double check me on this, but I think Mac OSX can send already encoded content like DVDs or movies bought on iTunes out through optical?).