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
After a while, I started doing more research and found that the output impedance of my sound card (Asus Xonar Phoebus) is 10 (or 10.5 measured independently).
Following the rule of 1/8, will this alter my sound significantly? or should I be fine? I will be primarily using these for music (Rock, Rap, EDM, Reggae, Synth, etc) and gaming (PUBG, R6 Seige, etc). Coming off of Astro A50's.
Thanks,
In like almost all cases the base response is poorer with weak dampening (caused by high output impedance). I typically like my low end exaggerated. But like I said, I probably would struggle to hear the exact differences anyway. A little bump in EQ would fix the issue for me.
You might be able to hear the subtle differences more so than me. But just knowing there are slight changes may bother you regardless of what you hear or don't hear (knowing it biases what you hear).
So yeah, technically it should be audible but perhaps not easily noticeable -especially if you've never heard the 7xx before.
Thanks for the response though! I'll settle for now and if they don't sound as good as I'd like, then I'll start looking at external solutions