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
edit: Didn't winamp have a kbps readout? I feel like this would be easy to test... I don't have any cd's though obviously.
edit2 **shittyMATHedition**: this is bugging me now. so if you had 1440kbps x 60seconds in a minute for kbpm conversion =86,400kbpm x3.5 minute song = 302,400kb? So 2 x 302megabyte average length 3.5 minute pop songs per CD at true lossless from the master?
edit3: I dont even know anymore because it could be lossless with pcm but would it be lossless at that point? I do more googleys when I have time.
There seems to be a point of confusion here about transcoding between formats. MP3 is lossy. Once you use LAME or whatever converter to go from PCM to MP3, you end up with a lossy file forever, regardless of how high a bitrate you use. You cannot re-convert back into PCM (i.e. burn MP3 to CD) and expect the sound to be the same as the original. What I read in SO (btw I had no idea which post was yours) that you linked may be an intellectually stimulating and interesting exercise in digital audio processing, but why would anyone want to convert a song encoded in a lower bit rate to a higher one? It is a one way street, you will never recover any lost detail from a low bit rate signal by transcoding to a higher bit rate.
Back to the original topic. These days I collect from any source I can find. CD format is still the most practical format for collecting high quality sound. There is music available in higher sampling rates like 24-bit/96kHz sampling and even higher, but that is not “common”. With all this digital talk you may think I really like CDs, but I prefer vinyl. What is most important is the music itself, reagrdless of how I listen to it.