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
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A simple explanation of how it works: It bypasses your laptop's inferior digital-to-analog (DAC) converter via a USB cable, runs your audio file through a much better digital-to-analog conversion, adds some juice to the analog signal (amplification), and then this impressively decoded and amped signal arrives in your earholes, which will finally understand just how capable your new IEMs are. Basically it makes your music sound way better and is totally worth the price of admission. Just plugging nice headphones into a laptop's audio-out is sort of like trying to rally a Subaru WRX with some $50 tires you got at Walmart.
And a recommendation, specifically for your MacBook: Vox is a very simple program that plays lossless audio files. Try pairing your favorite tunes in a lossless format (.FLAC files being the most common) with the USB DAC/Amp that I just convinced you to buy and you'll seriously be like, "Oh god, I thought these sounded good from my laptop's headphone jack?!"
That's all. Cheers!
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