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
Not so keen on it as a system pre-amp, I prefer Woo WA 2 for that.
and yes. I have a DV in my "stable". It doesn't get out much.
:)
(please ignore the WA7 perched atop The Woo Stack, I am using it as a DAC as well as it's own beautimous headphone ampness). (oh, and also ignore the bit of dust and cable clutter; I am re-settling my gear after re-furbing a Carver power amp.)
It's a far more powerful unit and you can go very very far with tube rolling and optimizing combos for specific listening experiences and musics etc. I think it has a cleaner sound, if power and cable set-up is correct, it's dead silent, as far as interference, cross-talk, etc. And, overall, I just prefer the build quality and the way Woos sound to other amps, including, but not limited to, the DV. I find that Woos suit a wider range of headphones, from Grado to HiFiman to Senns to Beyerdynamics to Audeze... and on and on we go. I have a pile of Schiit over here too, NICE gear.... but I still listen to my Woos far more often and I so enjoy the WA6 as a headphone only amp that I have 2 of them, one for the bedroom, one for my work/spend-much-of- my- time-here-listening room. I really believe that you can't go wrong with Woo.
Does DV hold its own compared to WA2 ?
And I agree with your take on DV's tubey SYRUP. You have to find some VERY restrained tubes for the DV to sound, IMO, at all good. I am using tubes on my DV that one would say turns a Woo into something that sounds like a computer sound card.
okay, not quite THAT bad, but you get what I'm saying here.
so sorry for harshing your DV mellow............ }:)
As you said, WA2 is good for speakers coz of the pre-out. Whereas for the WA6SE, pre-outs are a $300 addon.
Hmm I would say WA3 is the younger brother to the WA2 and WA6 is the younger sibling to the WA6SE. Though neither are in the same league as their older siblings.
As you know, I'm a "let's compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges" kinda guy, hence sticking to the WA2 as the OTL to compare with the DV. Classic classic classic.
Your choice of the SE is a very VERY excellent one.
p.s. When the WA2 is married to a Carver as the power amp driving your speakers, the combo is nothing short of SUBLIME.
hey good to see ya up in here. Hope all is good with yaz. :)
With that combo you tried..... what tubes were you using? You might want to roll that around a bit more, see if you can get a more mellifluous combo sound that even could bleed forward through that Emotiva. I had a Hafler between the WooWA2 and my speakers for a bit... and it didn't carry the Woo sound nearly as beautifully as do the Carvers. Plenty powerful.... but not nearly as beautiful. Clearly it's the power amp and not the Woo tubie.
My Sierra 2 speakers sound great out of Emotiva but i never had a tube speaker amp, so was hoping WA2 would let me try that with out having to invest in a tube speaker amps
I always recommend that people give their gear a solid chance. Plenty of gear that goes up for sale on the 'Bay because people don't have patience or a spirit of DIY.... guys like me benefit by picking up slick gear at a schweeeet! price. Do visit the 'Bay and do searches for your rolling tubes. If you have questions about tubes and The Roll, head on over to Headfi where there are entire threads, thousands of pages long, dedicated to tubes; specific tubes, tubes best for specific amps, best combos of specific tubes with other specific tubes.... and on and on and on. You can ask questions over there and people won't make you feel stupid EXCEPT if you don't even try just a little bit to search the forum for your subject before just jumping into a thread and asking something that was probly answered like 1 page back or something. Otherwise, Headfi folks tend to enjoy sharing what we know with everybody else. Even maybe more than they really want us to.
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