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
DAPs like this one, and External DAC solutions, like the Fiio Q1 Mark II, move the DAC/Amp functionality out of the phone, meaning less signal noise. DAPs generally have higher quality and higher power amplifiers than those inside of a phone.
I won't pretend I know 100% why 4 DAC chips is better than one, but I believe it's all in the name of cleaner audio, I would guess the same reason we have multiple processing and GPU cores in our phones these days. Though, as NwAvGuy mentioned while he was working on the ODAC, more DAC chips doesn't necessarily translate to better performance, and that it's the implementation of the DAC chips that makes them unique and useful.
Humans tend to really like centralization of functionality, but of course tying everything to a single failure point is something a lot of people aren't okay with. Such as having everything linked to your Google or Facebook account, if that lynchpin is hacked, everything else is as well. Same deal, if a phone has all the audio and dies, well, you can't listen to music on the go without charging it, and it'll drain your battery stupid-fast if you try to play games while listening to music or browsing the web, or whatever.
DAPs make sense from that standpoint, but it IS another piece of gear to carry around, keep charged/maintained, even if this one seems pretty decent for the price. Hope that helps.
It's all about market positioning & knowing what you want. Example: For this DAP, some things you can't do with a phone: DAC/amp passthrough from PC: For the Laptop/Phone nomad I guess Big library expansion: Space on phone for apps, space on dap for your 200 GBs of music. DSD support/apt BT: maybe the $1000 LG supports this, didn't check.
Another option is to use your phone for mass storage (especially for the SD card IO phones) & get an external DAC/AMP. I'd probably do that tbh, but my phone has 16GBs of storage.
Sometimes the headspace an anachronistic device provides can be a fertile ground, especially with media devices like game consoles and photography kit.
1. holds 512 gb of lossless files 2. has a line out for driving my amps 3. has usb out that feeds my DAC's (iPhone requires an adapter and on my phone pops and clicks)
if I want to stream MP3 files I can use my phone for that. But it doesn't compare to the lossless files I have,
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How exactly is that possible?
One would have to have possessed and listened to a shit-load of (fill-in-blanks)--in this case phones, for that statement to carry any particular weight in this conversation. So unless you happened to have a shit-load of current model phones lying around on your desk just recently (in order to do the comparison), I'd have to consider you and your comments, both full of (fill-in-blank ;- )
I have a Pixel, myself and since the DAP can even use a USB DAC, I might get it because my phone rarely survives a full day, but I have a day where I can listen to music constantly, but can't have a laptop, and having the phone is still useful. so... It makes sense for my use case. But I get that you like what you like.
(at least that's what it says in the script I'm reading--they couldn't say it if it wasn't true--right?)
Does your imaginary "M" know you're out here freelancing on an unsecured Hello Kitty flip-phone? Such a naughty boy! Guessing it's Roger's Moore's version of Bond that got your imaginary Lotus engine running in the first place? After all, he was the cheesiest 007 wasn't he?