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
update: test some more brief testing. I can maybe see the application of this for movie watching. personally not convinced about the benefits with traditional music tracks.
Yes, the Bypass mode is not perfect. We are working on fixing it. I would recommend quitting Out Of Your Head using the "exit" from the system tray icon. This will completely eliminate any Out Of Your Head processing for you to compare with and without Out Of Your Head .
If you are getting noise, it's most likely clipping. You can either turn down the volume in your media player application or turn down the input levels for that preset in the Out Of Your Head Control Panel.
Out Of Your Head does not do any up or down converting of the audio channels. If you send it stereo, you will hear stereo from the virtual speakers. If you feed it 7.1 audio, that's what you will hear. People who prefer to up convert their stereo music to 5.1 or 7.1 can do so in their media player application. JRiver Media Center has a built in function for doing that. FooBar and other apps have plugins that can upconvert to 5.1 or 7.1 channels. Once the audio channels are upconverted, then Out Of Your Head will play back the 5.1 or 7.1 audio being fed to it from the media player.
Yes, I agree that Out Of Your Head is not for everyone, especially those who prefer bit-perfect audio with their headphones. I get that for sure. Out Of Your Head is the opposite of "bit-perfect" since it is applying a significant amount of processing to the original audio. But even if you don't use Out Of Your Head for critical music listening, for movies, hearing them in 5.1 or 7.1 on high quality headphones really can't be beat. (I think.)
However, even with two channel audio, I still really enjoy the huge soundstage you get from speakers (or Out Of Your Head virtual speakers) rather than the "inside my head" imaging of headphones.
That's why I encourage everyone to download the trial and see if it's for you.
I do want to note for others that I have seen a quite few free surround sound processing software out there. Though this product geared towards 'audiophiles' with different types of speaker selection is unique from everything else I tried.