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
From what I read about this headphone, most people perfer a tube sounding 'warm' amp like this one:
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/little-dot-i-headphone-amp
That will drive your phones well from the sound output of your computer. Later on you can add an external DAC as well for better sound quality.
Good luck
Solid state amps/dac combos that will not break the bank would be either the fiio q1 mark ii (has balanced and is portable) or micca origen g2.
Spend a little more you may consider things such as aune x1s or schiit magni 3 + modi 2 or o2 amp + odac/sdac or topping a30 + d30. If you spend more money then you probably want something that is balanced such as the aune x7s (pair it with a sdac is fine) or liquid carbon x + sdac (massdrop has this right now) or schiit jotunhiem or two nuforce ha-200 in mono block config and a balanced dac.
The 6xx are great headphones for tube amps. You can start out with something like a little bear b4 amp. If you spend more money there is the darkvoice 336se. I don't reccomend hybrids like the little dot +.
Or you can just get a Schiit Jotunheim with the balanced DAC module, spent about $50 to get a balanced XLR 4pin cable, and you're set. About $600 investment and you got yourself a setup that's good enough and can be expanded on quite easily.
IF you are a baller get a Modi Multibit and don't bother with the Jotunheim's DAC module and you'd be spending about $150 more but supposedly it's "better". I can't vouch for that one since I only have the Jotunheim with the DAC module, but to me it's good enough.