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
Currently I have Beyerdynamic DT-880 Premium 600 Ohm and I also plan on getting Sennheiser HD650 in the future (couldn't get in on the 6XX drop sadly).
Right now my DT-880 is driven by my Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 2nd Gen Interface. But I don't have enough headroom to push quiet source-material, so I'm looking for a decent Headphone-Amp below 200$ (or 200€ here in Germany but don't worry about that for now).
First thing that came to mind is the Objective 2 which I can get for 110-150€ here. Someone in a german HiFi-forum recommended the Schiit Vali over the O2. But first of all it's a tube-amp, which I'm not sure if I would want that, and I've heard some bad stuff about Schiit as well.
Another question is: Do you think the Focusrite Interface has a decent enough DAC? I don't know which chip it uses and couldn't find much info online. I thought I might get by with using it as my DAC and then send the Line-Out to the headphone-amp. But I'm also open for spending another few bucks at something like the SDAC, ODAC or Schiit Modi.