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
If Product: DAC/AMP commonly used by the audio community primarily with headphones though not limited to headphones. The expectation is that by using an external digital to analog converter your digital files (mp3 etc, 1 or 0, high or low Voltage) will be converted to a more ideal analog signal(low, high and everything in between) as recorded in the studio without distortion (if your using a solid state dac like this one, tube amps give distortion but engineered to give a certain type). The AMP, or amplifier takes the analog signal from the digital to analog converter chip and ups the power (P = current x voltage) in a way that does not distort the waveform of the original signal. Amps are used by the community to drive higher impedance headphones or to separate possible power fluctuation in a computer (common audio source) from that of the power feeding the sound waveform.
If music was seeing a bench press bar moving then impedance would be the amount of weight on the bar. The more impedance, the stronger the weightlifter needed (amp) and the smaller the vibrational movement of the bar due to people walking around in the room (power fluctuation & electromagnetic waves).
Source: Just a dude who watches & reads too much about this stuff