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
The space taken up by amp boards is pretty small, and could easily be accounted for by making the cabinet slightly taller or deeper, so the above doesn't make a lot of sense. Also, putting amps inside the speakers lets you go fully active, with an active crossover pre-amplification. This is a MUCH bigger increase in sound quality than a slight increase in available cabinet volume. And, the active crossovers are physically smaller than passive ones, so even with amps added the space difference isn't as much as implied, assuming the heat sinks are external on the back.
The only real downside is increased cost to add four baby amps, but on the bright side, with the tiny power handling of these you could even go proper class AB instead of D; It'd probably only need one output device per amp.
Also, consider magnetic grilles instead of friction plugs next model or model revision. Most users will run nearfield monitors naked, and they look nicer without the four plastic-lined holes in the face.