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
Do any xd-05 owners succesfully use this as a portable amp on the go? Or is it just not worth it? Of course it would make a nice desktop amp, althtough if I'm going to do that I'd rather get the smsl m6 or m8a.
It does suffer from Chinese-cheap-gear-itis and if you don't like that, stay away. For me, the cheap-ass USB cable they supplied was absolutely crap, always disconnecting. Not sure which end it was (probably both!). I had a USB extension cable lying around, and that works great. Threw the provided cable in the garbage. XDuoo would do so much better if they provided higher quality accessories, good quality branded Windows drivers, and better documentation/customer service... Maybe better QA and fit-and-finish too. For example, the drivers on the included disc didn't work and I had to hunt down the right ones online. Thankfully it is plug-and-play on the Mac.
The back USB plug is a standard USB-A Male, so you need a USB-A female for it. So a USB extension cord works great. There are other DACs that use the same USB-A Male connector, so it's odd but not unheard of. I wish they'd have just used the micro-USB everyone has on their cell phones and like the Schitt Fulla2, like they did for the charging port. Meh.
With a good cable, I never get disconnects. I often use this in my car for long trips with a Nexus 5X (using a USB-C to USB-A Female cable, sometimes also with that extension cable to make it longer) and it works great. Sounds amazing.
This amp has lots of power! I bought it after watching this ZReview on YouTube because I needed something stronger than my Schitt Fulla2 to power Fostex T50RP3's. It does a good job with those cans and has worked well with everything else I throw at it, including IEM's. It never even gets warm. That review is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve2HfON4330
Anyway, I'm super happy with it overall. Most of the time I use it as a desktop USB DAC with Win10 and sometimes OSX alone or going into a Darkvoice 336SE. I also use it to watch loud movies at night, in the car on long trips, and in those cases the battery comes in very handy.
.jeff
Also zeos videos, nice xD