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 struggled a bit between the G5 and E5, and am glad I went with the E5 now that they updated to give real virtual surround decoding (5.1 signal -> magic -> 2 channel headphones surround) rather than just stereo to "stereo sounding more surroundy" (2.1 signal -> guess what sounds should be surround -> 2 channel headphones "surround").
I did a fair amount of research to figure out what chips were in the E1, E3, and E5 before purchasing, here they are: DAC Amp SNR E1 TI PCM5121? Maxim MAX97220 106 dB E3 TI PCM5122 MAX97220 112 dB E5 Cirrus Logic CS4398 TI6120A2 120 dB The G5 has the same chips as the E5
They all output 24 bit, though the E3 can do 96kHz and the E5 can do 192kHz. Why anyone would want this though is beyond me, like maybe two people ever can hear a difference between 44.1 and 96, and no one can hear a difference between 96 and 192. Plus nothing is mastered at this anyway.
One little annoyance is that both of the front jacks are only 3 band 3.5 headphone outputs, where on the E1 one of them was a headphone/mic combo so you could plug in a 4 band headset. The E1 also had an option in the Panel to use the 4 band one as a mic and the other one as the output which was good if you had a headset that terminated in two plugs - with the E5 the mic needs to be plugged into the back. ~~Another annoyance is that if I plug the E5 into my phone and use it via Usb OTG, it continually charges the E5, draining my phone battery. So it's best to use the E5 with my phone via 3.5mm cable or bluetooth.~~ UPDATE: This can be turned off by double tapping the power button.
I find it perplexing that Creative didn't disable that 'feature' by default.
Thanks!