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
I understand the need for simplification, but I feel this paragraph should have at least mentioned that digital storage continues to evolve and miniaturize, while analog storage has effectively reached its limits.
>>A stand-alone DAC offers more detail, better power supply, and a cleaner, >>more pleasing sound signature than the miniature versions built into most devices
It should be noted that most built-in dacs on cheap devices are more of a convenience feature. However, some may in fact be quite good so a stand-along dac may not necessarily be an upgrade. External dacs may in fact have more options and features that are desirable however, as opposed to what you're "stuck" with on the built-in.
>>A high-end DAC is designed to more accurately reproduce uncompressed files
Not quite true, though I don't think that was your intent. Compressed formats will be uncompressed before being sent to the dac. Lossy formats however will still be missing some data. The dac's performance will be equally accurate with any of them *relative* to the quality of the data you feed it.