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 manufacturer has disappeared from the Internet, is not answering any emails to his eBay seller account (DavidZheZhe), and has disabled new user registration and all email functionality on his website (littledot-dot-net). There is no way to contact him, there is no way to obtain support, and therefore no warranty. The product has obviously never been evaluated by UL or TUV as there is no way it could past muster from a product safety standpoint.
Dedicated headphone amps are a relatively small audio niche. Massive tube-based headphone amps are a generally tiny audio niche.
Having evolved quite independently, noise cancelling products are a radically different technology and a large market niche.
Not to mention the absolute chaos resulting from the shift from 1/8" TRS to TRRS jacks. Just a few months ago, my new $400 headphones (TRRS) refused to play at all with a 5 year old Macintosh (TRS). I was forced to buy an adapter (or an external DAC/amp) for that machine.
So, we are now in a world where a plug is not a plug and an amp is not an amp anymore. I'm starting to understand why Apple dropped the 1/8" jack, even though I still want it.