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
Well, that's the argument I was going to make. But I just found a copy of 1984 in 24-bit FLAC (checked the spectrogram to make sure, even) and started listening to it, and whoever mixed and mastered it must have appreciated a good soundstage, because they definitely made good use of it here. Which is quite a feat, considering most of what you're supposed to pay attention to is centered—and yet this doesn't sound flat at all, and it would absolutely not sound as good using headphones with a shallower soundstage than the headphones I'm using (the E-MU Purplehearts I got today, which don't even have that great of a soundstage anyway).
So maybe the people buying this to listen to Taylor Swift want to appreciate her in as high quality as they can. Sure, this music doesn't benefit as much from my source chain (Modi 2 Uber->$15 ground loop isolator->Little Dot I+ with Voskhod tubes->whichever headphones I feel like using) but it absolutely still benefits from it. You'd be hard pressed to find something that doesn't.