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
Also, it's odd for a neutral sounding IEM to have a Soundstage that lacks depth. I would have thought a flat sound signature tends to produce a cube-like/squarish Soundstage in width, depth and height.
However, you are correct when you say my assessment of the soundstage is strange. I was perplexed at first, but came to realize that this was due to two different conditions:
1) Low quality DAC in the Nexus 6P I was using 2) The driver is a 5mm micro driver, which is inherently limited in terms of sound staging. This is based off of my current understanding of the way modern audio drivers work, so if I am wrong, please correct me.
Given these two conditions, I tried to mitigate them as much as possible. I tried to use the best DAC I had access to at the time: whatever is in the HTC One M8. This improved conditions, but not so much that I really thought to report it. I am working towards getting better hardware to test my headphones off of, but as you might know, this is rather expensive.
If you have further questions, please ask away.