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
Basically, if you are using $3 ear buds, then no, it won't sound the same as high end speakers. But I think most people will agree that getting true "high end" sound from headphones is a LOT easier and more affordable than getting the same quality sound out of speakers. Just look at the most expensive headphones: Stax SR-009, Abyss AB-1266, etc. We are talking about the best, most expensive headphones and they are "only" $5000. For speakers, that is nothing.
So, the better the headphones, the more accurate reproduction of the speaker systems. But many people have pretty good sounding headphone rigs these days. These rigs are arguably much better sounding than most people's speaker systems. So you can get pretty close to the sound of these megabuck speakers with a good headphone rig.
But with cheap headphones, you still get the effect of the sound coming from way outside your head. You will hear the speakers exactly where they were when I measured them. Sure the sound quality may be limited by your headphones, but at least you can still get the sound out of your head and hear a full 7.1 speaker setup even with cheap headphones.
For demos, I often use a pair of $40 Koss PortaPro headphones and they work great!
The bottom line is that the beauty of software is that you can try it for yourself and judge for yourself if you think it works or not. It's not for everyone's tastes, but even if you don't like it for critical music listening, I can assure you it's the best way to watch movies.
When I demo the software, almost everyone says, "Holy Cr@p!" when they hear it. Really.
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The point was that you don't need top of the line headphones at all. It even works using Apple earpods.
Sorry if I was not clear before.