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 have just done some testing with the trial version, and it does not appear to be working properly for me.
I am using a 5.1 movie, and in the control panel, I only see the 2 left and right input channels registering any audio input.
I went through the setup doc for configuring the 7.1 speaker config in Audio Midi Setup, and the OOYH driver is being enabled for playback.
I can toggle between the different presets with proper sound signature changes, it is just the surround channels that are not being played back properly.
I am using OS X Yosemite, and a Geek Pulse DAC.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jody
When you are playing a 5.1 or 7.1 source file in an app that supports 5.1 or 7.1 playback, then you should see the input level meters on the Out Of Your Head Control Panel moving when there's audio content on each of the channels. (The output of Out Of Your Head is always 2 channel, but the input can be up to 8 channels.)
However, often people assume that apps like Netflix or iTunes delivers 5.1 or 7.1 when they don't. Generally streaming services don't deliver multichannel audio. The best way to test multichannel is to use a DVD or BluRay disk or rip. Then also make sure the app you're using to play those files or disks support decoding multi-channel audio sources. On the Mac, JRiver and VLC support multi-channel decoding.
BTW, you should never have to adjust any of the settings for the Out Of Your Head Audio Device in Audio/MIDI Setup. Please leave the settings at default.
Let me know if you have any questions, -Darin
PCI-E
I will have to be totally honest with you. We have had a lot of problems with the Xonar PCI cards and have not been able to figure out all the issues. We are not sure if it's a problem between our driver and theirs or some other incompatibility.
There have been several people using the Xonar cards that we have not been able to get working. However, I do have a long list of things to try if you want. Let me know and I can e-mail the list to you. (info at fongaudio.com)
Otherwise, I would say that those people who use a Xonar PCI card as their only DAC, should probably hold off on purchasing Out Of Your Head until we are able to get a Xonar card in house for troubleshooting.
Sorry about that, -Darin
I also just ordered a Xonar Essence STX sound card so we can figure out how to get it working.
-Darin