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 darkvoice may sound better with tube rolling for high impedance headphones but for lower impedance headphones this will have less distortion/noise due to impedence output. So if you have a large variety of headphones that aren't 250+ ohms, this would work better. Think having the AKG 7XX, the fostex X00, hd 6XX, and a beyerdynamic 990 pro 250/600 ohm and this will power them all decently with little distortion/impedance output under control since it says 8 ohm suitable output for sensitive headphones, the darkvoice might have issues with the lower impedance headphones like the fostex X00 and planar magnetic headphones since the tubes and darkvoice impedance output is higher than this, so IEMs and planar magnetic headphones are going to pick up noise with the darkvoice.
This is essentially an all in one, so if you don't have a DAC or an amp, this is the cheapest you can get a single and XLR output (and one of the cheapest tube amps with an XLR out in general) so if you don't have a DAC (again sorry for replying after the drop ended) this is a good starter. If you already have a DAC you like, and have the higher impedance Sennheiser and Beyerdynamic headphones, go grab the darkvoice.
If you don't have a DAC, if you don't want to grab one of these off eBay at a higher price (closer to the cavali plus sdac price which would be one of the next cheapest DAC/amps with XLR out, but this Xduoo would still cheaper by a bit) I recommend a Topping D30 DAC.
If you just need the amp, darkvoice would be my recommendation if you have the high impedance headphones. Otherwise for the price, single ended Magni 3 has more or similar power to the darkvoice at the higher impedance levels and does well with lower impedance headphones, but no tube rolling.
What? Nothing you said makes sense.