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
2) The power supply connector looks interesting, proprietary I imagine. Z Review mentions it in his video [02:13 to 02:33 link below]. I quote “Proprietary power supply. It’s a plus and minus push-pull 12 Volt. Beneficial to audio since it gives a positive and negative value” Hmm, don’t all DC power supplies (both switching and linear) give a positive and negative value?
3) The 5th Generation weighs 2 KG (refer box label). I imagine this is mainly the power supply. I don’t think it is a linear power supply; Aune would’ve clearly mentioned it (as a selling point). Any confirmation on this?
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https://youtu.be/vlXW20ptu7E?t=132
While I do not believe this PSU to be a true linear one, it’s obviously more thought out than your traditional 5v brick. 4 prongs means 2 positives, 2 negatives. Sharing the ground for audio purposes is generally seen as bad as clean signal is more important than efficiency.
I have no reason to believe this is a “true” linear power supply, which is probably why they don’t market it as such - but by having a 4 prong its definitely better.
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The 6th generation (anniversary edition) is listed as 200 mw at 300 ohms. Nice to see that. Yes this is the first time they have this. Nice to see they fixed the price, the aune x7s is now 200 usd what it advertised unlike before and you can now save $20 for getting both.
I think they typically have a positive and a neutral, whereas this presumably has positive, neutral and negative rails.