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
Generic cables are perfectly fine for the most part as long as you keep them short.
If you live in america Monoprice 6ft 3.5mm Stereo Plug/2 RCA Plug Cable, Black (product?p_id=665). Will probably work just fine for like $3. I wouldn't recommend the premium cable from monoprice -> the added weight and stiff robustness allowed it to bend a little inside the 3.5mm connector and made poor connection sometimes (sound crackled and/or cut out).
Another option is Product # 9768 from monoprice. Little more expensive (by $1) but you have the option of a 3ft cable.
With that said, I'm actually not sure what the performance of a standard sound card is. 16bit/44.1kHz??? My computer gets 24bit/96KHz. It's not exactly amazing but not complete crap either. I doubt I can here differences higher than that. However, I do hear a hiss with high sensitivity headphones. So.... an external DAC will at least fix that for me.
A large number of external DAC's can provide far better spec's than my motherboard's (well claim they can). I plan on getting the Topping D50 DAC as my endgame for the next 10 years probably. 192kHz /24bit optical I think: might just be 16bit at that sampling with optical. 768kHz / 32bit USB -> at least it claims that. i doubt it actually outputs 32bit analog.