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
For music, I don't care for it. Too much spacialization and the one track has so much reverb it sounds like I'm listening in a bathroom. Give me a touch of crossfeed and that's plenty of "moving the sound out of my head" for me. A good mix can really go a long way and shouldn't need a lot of post processing. Sex In A Pan by Béla Fleck & The Flecktones is one of my favorite songs to listen to for good soundstage on headphones, because the mix is done very well. Since my primary genres of music, electronic and indie rock/alt, don't really favor simulated surround, it's not really a selling point for me.
For movies, the effect is definitely more immersing. I didn't do an A/B/X comparison, but Yamaha's Silent Cinema on my receiver has a fairly good HTF (head transfer function) as well as my Astro Mixamp's Dolby Headphone and Asus DX Dolby Headphone profiles. Since these are hardware solutions (or at least HW/SW combo), the latency produced is extremely low, versus the OoYHS software latency figure quoted in the discussion.
I guess I can see where this software solution may fit in. Heck, at one point I was searching for this exact thing, but with gaming in mind. That's how I ended up buying the Astro Mixamp. Definitely a niche for it, it's just not really for me. Thanks for the demos and good luck improving your software solution to surround simulation!