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 longer version:
I'm a field recordist. I make a habit of hauling a bag full of sound gear way out in the middle of nowhere to record... the middle of nowhere. Consumer level portable recorders have come a long way in the last decade, offering P48 power, gobs of clean gain, lots of bit depth, and wonderful sampling rates. The one area they tend to lack is their headphone amps.
Two ways to fix this: Option one is to switch to a pro level recorder from a company like Sound Devices or Zaxcom. Only problem? The cost is about $1k per channel and I routinely use four channels. Option two is to use the line out jack on my existing recorder and feed it into a dedicated headphone amp. Hence the question.
I see lots of DAC/AMP combos here on Massdrop, but I really don't need the DAC to make this work. Any recommendations for a battery powered headphone amp I could squeeze in my bag next to my recorder?
Thanks,
Tom