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
2) There is not enough technical info to have confidence in ordering. Having specs like exact output impedances or power rating in W into 32/64 ohms is a must from my perspective to really have trust in what I am purchasing.
3) Uncertain warranty support. What happens after the 1-year long Massdrop warranty, would anybody even consider repairing the amp? Eddie Current? Doubt it. Laconic? Be ready for the huge hassle with shipment to Russia and back. Your amp can very well get stuck on its way back to you from Russia. For me, currently residing in EU, even shipping to US within the first year would be very unpleasant.
4) The whole SBAF crowd is praising the amp based on supposedly great synergy with HD6x0/HD800 and OPT SET nature. The thing is pretty much everybody also testing with planar magnetics reported rather mediocre results... and some not-so-enthusiastic impressions with dynamics can be found too. This amp is probably good to go just for dynamic headphones, ideally high impedance or tonally brighter ones, to avoid subjective mushiness or softness.
5) As usual, too much hypetrain aka new toy syndrome. Also not many people heard the amp really. Would rather wait a year or two until things settle down a bit and shortcomings of this amp are well identified. I cannot try the amp and also cannot buy it with return option - thats yet another bummer for me.
Yeah, it is a very difficult decision for me since I wanted to own an Eddie Current amp for quite some time and SET OPT technology is also something I would like to test alongside my OTL Valhalla 2. Moreover, tonally and timbre wise, ZDT Jr. seems very very promising based on SBAF impressions so far. But, due to so many uncertainties, just need to pass this time :-/
Wish the others all the best with their decision making!
I just dont believe this amp will have great synergy with the my emu teaks and th-x00 variants.
OPT is also the abbreviation for the output transformer itself. I've always seen these amps called OTC (output transformer coupled) but since an OTL doesn't have a transformer, I don't know that it really matters how you refer to it.
Anyway, I agree. I've yet to pull out of this drop, but I'm not confident in it. Probably going to bail and let the money go elsewhere for the time being.
' Not quite push pull. The design is very clever and worthy of a Nelson Pass'esque self promotional white paper. Just that Ahmed has sucky English and his universal translator often mistranslates earpad into tampon, or something like that. '