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 tested the amp on K7XX, DT990 pro (250ohm), MDR V6, and my 1989 K240m (600ohm) all being fed lossless files through my Dacport slim on the low impedance setting with the volume wheel all the way up (the recommended setting for line output). The amp was dull sounding at first, but as it broke in and warmed up, the tubes came to life and sound quite good (I'm not gonna give my opinion on these quite yet though, I want to do some more testing). On first impressions, I don't think that this amp is enough to drive the highest impedance headphones on the market. I found that with my K240m's, It lacked major low end (and that's coming from a guy who isn't that fond of low end, using headphones that don't produce alot). They sounded tinny and nasty, and didn't quite get up to the ear blasting volume that one might expect (although it brings the headphones up to a reasonable volume). I have not tried the DT series 600ohm headphones, but I suspect that the story might be the same. The positive for this amp outweighs the negatives though. I'll go into this more when I update this with a sound review.
Tl;DR Shitty packaging, great amp.