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 no idea what the heck you are talking about, " And every major review site that checked it out came to the same conclusion " This is a flat out lie!
People are in enchanted by this digital mentality. Where they see an extremely complex system, an audio consumer electronic device, in black and white. No, No, No.
Here is reality. Ground noise, clocking , power availability, signal noise, IC characteristics, the IC eco-system of surrounding discretes and other IC's characteristics , cost and inter-opibility issues, Bill of materials, difficulty in bringing the whole system to mass production and maintaining it, support costs and lastly timing - how quickly can it all be done for the certain market window, and lastly the profit margin (how much does it cost to make, and what do they sell it at) ~ gets thrown into one big pot, and the company (ie SMSL) manages all the trade-offs, and releases the product.
Power is a huge component in all the trade-offs. In all designs. In this design, if you provide clean power, either battery pack or a linear power supply, the thing kicks ass. It is an over - achiever for over all cost $240.
BTW a $60 LPS should do it. Do a search, there are answers out there, and suggestions.
Only idiots on Head-Fi (A site filled with idiots and scamlord admins) believe there is some difference. But the same idiots on head-fi also believe that dirty USB data exists and that headphone cables make "worlds difference" in sound quality. Basically showing that Head-Fi writers have 0 credibility on the subject of anything that costs money or could possibly get them kickbacks.