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
Everyone in the house could tell the difference. Everyone commented that the Dacport was clearer, much more detailed and natural in the bass area and superior in all aspects of sound quality including dynamics, separation, soundstage, center imaging and an analog sound. The Fulla sounded "muffled" to everyone, dull and less appealing in every way. That said, the Fulla was quite liked by everyone before. So even non-biased ears could easily tell the difference. I did the switching so no one knew which was which. (since they both use an AKM chip I thought it would be more difficult for them to discern the difference)
Differences: DACport vs Fulla Digital volume control vs potentially dis-balanced or dirty analog pot. 2015 AKM 4399 (edit: oops meant AKM 4490)"Verita" Flagship (native 32bit) vs 10 year old AKM4396 Class A 450ma output with no filter caps vs Nebulous 200ma with cap/ resistor filtering. XMOS vs CM6631 usb interface 192khz 32 bit vs 96khz 24bit Smooth metal case versus a Sharp edged case. CEntrance writes actual windows audio drivers (Less than a handful worldwide do so. I believe they write drivers for Tascam, Korg, Mackie, Alesis, Lexicon etc.) Vs third party usb drivers. $99 vs $90ish shipped.
The DACport outclasses the Fulla in every way and likely any other portable dac currently made.
So now I have to buy the wifey one...