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
The DAC used in the uDAC-5 is not the 9010 but the 9010K2M, which is a low power, two-channel (stereo) only version. So it uses one internal DAC per channel. I expect the noise and distortion to be higher, but it would also be meaningless to put anything else in such a small box, with an opamp based amplification circuitry that by necessity is very simple - and definitely not at the refinement level of the Gustart X20, not to speak of the HE 1.