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 sound is also good, it isn't life changing, but noticeable and worth the money. It's hard for me to describe it after only a day, but I would say it sounds richer with my O2 and 6XX's. I have not yet tried it with DSD files, but I have heard from forums it doesn't make much of a difference. I will update this review in the future if I get a chance to listen to some higher grade files.
So far I am struggling with the inputs on this amp, as it is only usb input. Which is fine for PC, but I can't seem to connect it too much else, including my PS4. I am also running this driver-less, as Toppings website isn't accessible on my end for whatever reason. It doesn't affect the sound, but it might affect the L.E.D.s display of the music files quality as it seems stuck on either 44.1 or 384khz for me.
Other than the lack of versatility, this really is a great dac, both internally and externally. This along with my O2 makes for a solid and stylish combo that I am pretty happy with so far. I've included pictures to see what it looks like on a desk. If anyone who owns a D10 knows of any fixes, I would greatly appreciate it as I would love to give it 5 stars.
You then get a small configuration panel for the DAC (not much to do there I guess). Also don't forget to edit the Windows sound settings for your DAC:
- Right-click the sound icon in taskbar, "Sound Settings", then hit "Sound Control Panel" on the right pane. - Select your D10 and hit "Properties" - Set Levels to 100 (at all times: you want 100% digital volume and only change the O2 analog volume to retain bit-perfect DAC, so never ever change volume on the PC, always on the end-of-the-chain amp in the analog realm, right before your headphones or speakers). - Check "Disable all enhancements" to make sure Windows won't try to mix/resample your audio signal. - Default format, only applies when using others apps than Foobar since Foobar will override that setting based on the music file (so this only applies to e.g. Chrome videos, games, etc). Default should probably be 24bit-48KHz (alternatively 24-44.1 if you listen mostly to music and rarely to YouTube). Also check both boxes below, exclusive control and app priority, Foobar needs that, although I think it's redundant with ASIO specs anyway). - Spatial sound Off, obviously. - Then close that window, and still selecting the D10, hit "Configure". Click next once and check the box Full-range speakers: "Front left and right". It's important so that Windows won't apply a hi/low cut filter to your sound, especially with hi-res stuff.
There are specific instructions that you'll find in the driver zip file (in pdf) to setup Foobar2000 properly. It's the best player for high quality audio, hands down. Not the best looking, not the greatest UI/UX probably, but just world class sound. Believe me, I've tried a lot of music players on Windows, Mac, Linux, even iOS and Android. This is the best, few come even close, most are distant echoes in the dark.
One thing that isn't mentioned: in Foobar2000 Preferences, in the Advanced section, open "Playback" then "Thread Priority" and set these values: - Thread Priority: 7 - Check the box "Use MMCSS" - MMCSS Mode: Pro Audio (you just write these two words separated by a space and hit enter).
You can also increase "Full file buffering up to (kB)" to something like 1000000 to make sure even a huge 1GB file would get fully loaded in RAM while playing. It's a little trick to avoid spinning a disk while playing, which may or may not matter to you. Anyhow, it's always better to read from RAM as it's virtually lag-free and frees up resources for you, the user.
That should give you pretty much the best sound there is to be experienced out of a Windows machine while retaining a working desktop (Foobar2000 is very, very low footprint, it's great for that).
Hope this helps, don't hesitate to ask for more details. Have a great day and enjoy the tunes! ______________ EDIT: Added the actual Dropbox link, if for some reason you can't access the Topping website.
Good stuff!