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
Try the headphones with the amps you already own. Not loud enough for your ears? Buy a more powerful amp.
The components used is shitty amps can muddy the signal path, causing it to sound tinny, and distorted. Do some Research friend.
The fact is that the bit that actually does the amplification in most devices is relatively inexpensive... for a GOOD one. Consider that "perfect amplification" means making a sound louder while remaining precisely true to the frequency response of the original signal. Perfect = 1. Bad = 0. The majority of amps these days are so close to "1" that any difference between them is unlikely to be detectable in most situations, i.e.; most people's ears with most dynamic drivers with most music. You can't get any better than "perfect" and even damn close to perfect is pretty easy to find (just about any smart phone or laptop). No matter how money a company throws at slight improvements, "1" is as good as it gets.
Google "law of diminishing returns".
The K7XX, like most AKG, are NOT exotic formulations of unobtainium coils wound by space aliens that require the power of a neutron star to drive adequately.
YES, a GOOD amp will make your music louder. That's it's sole purpose. People getting their hopes up, reading posts like yours, that investing money in something and expecting some sort of magical enlightenment might actually find some confirmation basis that makes them think louder = better. Many will be disappointed to find that their $1000 laptop, $600 smart phone, or PC motherboard sounded just as good (if not as potentially damaging to their hearing).
I actually run an amp on my desktop. An Audio-gd NF-11. It has WAY more power than I will ever use with these headphones but that isn't why I bought it. I bought it because I like having a quality, physical volume knob on my desk and the convenience of a cable that's easy to disconnect. That's it.