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
- A sufficient high input level is needed to get the energizer to reach it's full potential.
- The full potential of the energizer is not enough to drive the headphones to it's full potential.
(And let's just assume 2. is true, because again: I don't know that, it's just what some people say.) What Fayne is saying below ("As long as your audio source is a proper 1+ VRMS, you should be good.") is correct. It is all about having the proper voltage to get the most out of the energizer, and indeed some "weaker" sources don't reach that. A pre-amp could be usefull for this. Maybe you don't know this but a full amp is not only, sometimes even not at all, about raising the voltage. What differentiates a full amp output from a line or pre-amp output is that you can connect it to a low impedance (like a speaker or headphone) and the amp will be able to deliver the current and power needed to maintain its voltage. If you would connect such a low impedance to a line or pre-amp output the voltage will simply drop because such outputs can not deliver current and power (don't try this because it may even cause damage). An amp input or the input of the energizer will have a high impedance so that it doesn't draw current and power, regardless of whether the source could or could not deliver that current and power. That's why it has no use to have a full amp driving the input of another full amp/energizer. But when nothing else is at hand and you have the amp anyway you sometimes could use it to get the proper voltage, but it is not the ideal situation and sometimes can give unexpected problems. At best it can help make the energizer reach it's full potential (Problem 1.), but it still doesn't change the energizer's full potential (Problem 2.), and hence the full potential of the headphones is still not reached. Please note I am not a real expert, I think the above is more or less correct but don't bet your life on every word I wrote.