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
just a suggestion, update the drivers for the onboard audio, a while back i noticed my mothers laptop was having volume issues with headphones...windows update replaced the realtek driver with one from the update server.....as soon as it rebooted with the latest realtek driver.....easily 3x as loud at the same setting..(wtff?)
I would suggest you consider an O2dac/amp it would allow you to use the optical out on your board to feed the amp that would just be used for your headphones.
another option would be something like the FIIO E17 that works as a usb soundcard(dac) and amp.
EDIT: installing new drivers did indeed help the volume! Thanks!
and yeah, honestly today, unless your doing audio production, a quality motherboards audio should cover your needs, gigabyte asrock or asus tend to all do a good job at making their audio decent, hell even biostar did a good job last time i owned one of their lower end boards(actually rmaa tested better then my buddy's top end asus at the time...everybody was shocked as my board was over 200bucks cheaper then his...hehe
anyway, glad it helped updating drivers yourself makes a huge, NEVER let windows update drivers.