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 listen to Western and Indian Classical, Jazz and Blues and some classic Rock. An overwhelming proportion of the best music of these genres happened at a time before there was high quality recording, much less hi-res audio. Take the best body of work of Billie Holiday, Ben Webster, Liberace, Stefan Ashkenazy, Karajan, Ravi Shankar or Bhimsen Joshi for example. Converting a Toscanini Concert into a FLAC file may produce some improvement in audio quality, but no matter how much you scrub and polish it you cannot inject new data into a lower resolution original just as you cannot put in new pixels into a low resolution photo, except by a software trick.
Has anybody stopped to think that there may be limits to how finely the human auditory system can resolve detail and judge quality? Surely there must be a point beyond which one can no longer tell the difference with a device whose improvements may be measurable in a lab but not discernible to the ear.
Much as in photography, where ridiculously higher pixel counts are being offered in a fiercely competitive market, the quality of an image is more than the number of mega pixels it contains. So it is with music where sheer resolution and cold clinical precision are not everything. Instead, I would much prefer to listen to the warmth and charm of a slightly less perfect and relatively inexpensive tube amp (Thank heaven for the Chinese and the likes of Bottlehead!).
I think there are two kinds of audiophiles. There are those who love high quality audio but are primarily focussed on the music they listen to. They would relish a less than perfect recording of Sinatra over a high resolution sample of music that didn't move them much. Then there are those for whom the prime motivation is the audio quality. I don't mean that they are indifferent to the music itself, but that they are very intolerant of poor sonic quality, no matter how great the music.
I guess if you belong in the latter category, trading in both kidneys for a bargain Astell - Kern or a Hifiman 901s makes sense. If not consider giving up one for a X5 or X7 (I have the former). If you're a really bad sport and determined to hang on to all your body parts, there's always the old reliable iPod Touch, now resurgent in a brand new avatar!