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'm signed up for the Drop, but the whole DAC/Amp thing has boggled me.
I'm planning on using these with no DAC, no (mini-) Amp, but instead plugged directly into the headphone jack of a Marantz 2325 receiver-- it was Marantz's flagship in 1974 and was my father's. After he gifted it to me, I had a complete ground-up restoration done, and it's *perfect*-- 125 (true) watts per channel at 8 ohms.
Good plan? Bad plan? Right choice of headphones? Poor choice of headphones?
Thanks!
edit: I just googled "vintage receiver output impedance headphone" and I got this interesting thread from head-fi that corroborates what I've just wrote:
https://www.head-fi.org/f/threads/does-a-vintage-receiver-cut-it-as-a-headphone-amplifier.589415/
I spent a good while today looking through the old Marantz materials I could find, both on my laptop and on the 'net, and the *only* thing I found re: the headphone jack was as follows:
"Headphones Output......................................................0.7V into 8 ohms at rated distortion"
Honestly? I don't even know what that means. However, a lot of the "vintage" threads seem to think that the amp is a jewel with pretty much any headphone, including the HD6xx series.
I had the amp completely rebuilt from the ground up in a "cost is no object" restoration, so I suppose I'll just have to operate on faith and give these headphones a chance, since I wasn't able to find any particular information on the Marantz 2325's headphone jack specifications.
Sigh. NOTHING is ever easy!