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
But not as cool-retro looking as big rows of discrete resistors though... unless it were made to be so... a resistor network on sapphire - under glass... a Chord fish-eye-magnifier-window maybe, for desktops?
I have to admit that I would like one of today's ultimate metal foil R-2R DACs... saw while looking for R-2R networks, dreams... http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/totaldac3/1.html
From a review of the Rega Planet, circa '98', still a fitting statement today:
"Imperfect sound forever" "And don't forget that CD is an imperfect system. Never mind "perfect sound forever." We're stuck with imperfect sound—if not forever, then for many years to come.Roy Gandy told me, "With engineering CD players, it's a science and an art, because the whole system is relatively imperfect in itself. Often, real technical improvements on paper can take you backward in sound quality."
https://www.stereophile.com/content/rega-planet-cd-player-page-3
Integrated resistor arrays are not inherently better or worse than discrete resistors. In the context of the RDAC, the price point made it unrealistic to source sufficiently wide and precise integrated arrays. Otherwise, you are absolutely right that integrated arrays have better matching and can be a great solution for an R-2R DAC.