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 iPhone will not only play ALAC files, it will actually stream them, provided your wifi network has the bandwidth.
Once you are playing hi-Res lossless files it's down to signal quality, and the iPhone is the best in the business in that department. There is a vast array of high fidelity efficient (and quite expensive) headphones out there that will give you a hi fi experience with your iPhone without the need for external amplification.
Generally speaking, a person who assumes iPhone listeners are limited to iTunes, Pandora and Spotify are just ignorant of the array of high fidelity source material out there the iPhone was designed to reproduce with astonishing fidelity.
Furthermore, CD's use PCM, not WAV, and are generally 16-bit/44.1kHz sound files. There is no technical difference between what iPhone is capable of and what a CD is capable of at this point.
To say that iPhone is "best in the business" is completely bogus as well. Especially when you have phones like Xiaomi and LG slapping on ESS Sabre DACs on their phones. And although HTC uses an undisclosed DAC, it also blows iPhone out of the water in sound reproduction.
TL;DR: iPhone will not compress your audio, but will not play your lossless files as intended. It merely translates and scales down to fit its maximum software capability.