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
To get surround sound, add a DSP – a Digital Signal Processor. Some DSPs take surround positional information, and apply advanced models of what happens to a sound as it travels from a direction, to your two ears. We call this Binaural Processing. The best processing takes account for how the shape of a head and torso affect the sound too. This effect can be much more precise and accurate than having multiple headphone speaker drivers in each earcup, with less side effects.
Consider this: All games actually perform a sort of processing to make a typical stereo mix. The game’s audio engine takes the raw positional data of an enemy in front, a teammate shouting “HUT!” from behind, or a bird in the sky, and decides how it should be panned between the left or right channel. Mere volume % per channel is a limited amount of information, and not at all like our brains interpret all the information our two ears pick up in the natural world. 5.1 or 7.1 surround is better, but directions are still limited to 7 directions and a volume %. Binaural sound is channel-free and can be as accurate as real-life.
The PC373D comes with a USB dongle which bypasses a computer’s motherboard audio, and also provides Dolby Headphone surround processing, simulating up to a 7.1 home theater surround system. Sennheiser also makes our own GSX 1000 and GSX 1200 DSPs that act as external soundcards, and can take 7.1 surround and convert it to binaural sound. The GSX models are a great pairing with the PC37X here! Sennheiser is also developing products to record binaural sound; this will be our AMBEO line.
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