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 think it sounds like what you need is a balanced pre-amp. Questyle makes a DAC/HP Amp/Pre-amp that would probably meet your needs, the Questyle CMA600i. It will cost you $1300, and I wouldn't try it for an HE6 (I wouldn't do that with this one either), but if you are shopping in this price bracket for a balanced HP Amp, you could probably sell your DAC afterwards and have less boxes floating around your setup.
Technically, you could use this headphone amp to power passive speakers (not active) that are fairly sensitive. Just get two speaker wires that go from the end you need (sometimes bare wire, sometimes binding post, sometimes 1/4", sometimes speakon), then cut off the end you would normally attach to an amp, and solder each of the speaker wires into a 4-pin XLR. Then you can plug your passive speakers into this or any other balanced headphone amp. Just make sure the amp has sufficient power levels (looking for at least 4w usually at 32ohms) and that the amp has a proper output impedance, anything under 1ohm is fine.
Sold it and wen't and bought a Oppo HA-1. It is such a beautiful device and it sounds amazing.