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
Here is another way to go, it should meet your price point @ $115, and it will move you far ahead of where you might be heading now. Plain simple; PC makers are not going to put devices into products that have no direct benefit to sales, period, the std. DAC's & op-amps suck. Plugging your new cans into a plain, no nice sound card or decent sound hardware built-in on a high end MOB, with some level of EMI/RFI shielding, in a PC, will simply disappoint, you will think all these audio folks are BS.
Korg isn't seen much in this audiophile market, because they are focused on designing and selling to musicians. They simply don't have the right marketing hooks into this crazy wooden-box-of-dirt is an earth ground market. They have made a uniquely paired product, software & hardware that can take you right front row,, now, at a steal. They even partnered with Phonon to make a custom set of cans matched to the 100m DAC/amp. You benefit here because of the market acceptance wall they did not make it over and the hardware is selling for a pittance of what it is truly worth. MD are you listening?? Hopefully they will re-double their efforts and bring lots of swag... to try again to take on the wall... they have insight that can benefit this market. If you can use a PC, you can use their software - after a bit,, or not, it will work with what you feed it, albeit at low rez. With the custom app you can up-sample your heart away, play bit-perfect, or you can even degrade, "down-sample" to play on antiques, you know period music, the 80's...
All we are doing here is trying to reproduce the art that musicians make, as best we can, as they hear it. I have been searching for this capability, worked on the systems making the first CD's. Still have CD's at home coated in floor wax to protect the Al we had just sputtered onto the data side. I now have a Korg 100 that I feed into a modified tube amp into HD700's, but had mis-loaded the app so it was not the "unlocked" full version, limited to 48 kHz and 44.1 kHz quality. Didn't want to play with re-loading it, so I listened to it for a few days,, it was ok. I got a DSD 2.8 file of Steely Dan aja, not a rip of a disk, the real thing (disks have issues), so I re-loaded the app, "unlocked" it,, and listened to aja in "native" DSD 2.8...... not DoP,,, yes, an epiphany ... we can get there...
Get this Korg, get some DSD or 24/192 files of "your" music, listen, and write back...
http://www.korg.com/us/products/audio/ds_dac_100m/
https://www.amazon.com/Korg-DSDAC100M-Digital-Analog-Converter/dp/B00GTIUX0Y/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1506604885&sr=8-2&keywords=korg+dac+ds+100
The cheapest version is the portable 100m above; the next up is the 100 that has RCA and balanced XLR outs, the next 10R $ can take your vinyl to DSD to preserve it, and the vinyl. Oh, get decent silver, plated is fine, USB cable too, $ well spent, if not now, next, there is no end game ;) I plan on getting the 100m to take on the road with the Phonon (want closed for noisy hotels) matched cans...