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
My only minor criticism about the unit is the low ground-loop type hum that is constantly there even with volume off. I wouldn't use this amp with very sensitive IEM's since the hum is clearly audible between songs. With less sensitive HifiMans hum is not an issue.
I agree this is amazing. I had one at home and just bought a second one for work. :) It just isn't the same without it. I do like the stock tubes, but I did roll some Russian Rocket era tubes and ended up even happier with sound!
I'm with you on this one: read some raving tube reviews on head-fi and ordered a couple of days ago some Russian NOS tubes as well, perhaps the very same types. Should have them in a couple of days. Even the Soviet-era packaging looks fantastic: tube atoms with electrons orbiting around them. Or are they satellites orbiting a tube planet? Nobody in their senses wishes Soviet Union back (especially us here in Finland) but they sure made some good tubes. And now Soviet stuff starts to have this nostalgic cool about them.
Not sure since I haven't used or listened to Schiit products myself. They seem to be popular, though, even not so much here in Europe. Also visually very different types of products: LD Mk2 looks much more DIY with the four tubes exposed, which I personally like. Little Dots are bulk products and immediately available also in e.g. eBay and Amazon.
I got a matched pair of new-old-stock 6N6P tubes from 1972, Russian/Soviet made. Paid roughly 30 € for the pair. I also experimented a bit with the driver tubes from models I already had, can't recall which I enend up using.
There were two effects: background hiss level lowered, and the sound got a bit cleaner or smoother - let's call it more HiFi. Couldn't hear any change in the frequency balance, but loewered hiss made it possible to use balanced armature IEMs too. Very happy with the purhase.