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
However, I'm a bit concerned about the power rating. This Teac is rated at 26 watts at 4 ohms, while my AR-215PS speakers recommend 20-100 watts at 8 ohms. (https://www.crutchfield.com/S-BqZCi97dOA3/p_058AR215B/Acoustic-Research-AR-215PS.html) Will this be an issue? As I understand it, this isn't particularly harmful, but the sound level will be lower, and raising the volume to compensate will result in diminished quality. Is that correct?
Now to the question of sound quality when pushing the volume up close to the amp's full capacity; I think because these are "class D" type amps, there isn't any degradation of the sound quality as it approaches its limits. I may be wrong, but from what I have heard, this type of amp is just as clear and distortion-free at its peak capacity as it is at low power. So I think concerns about diminishing sound quality that does occur in tube and traditional transistor amplifiers do not apply to this type of design. I don't know everything about class D amps, so someone who thinks I'm wrong about that should feel free to correct me on that point.
I think this looks like a really sweet system and I'll envy you if you get it. I think it would be an excellent match for your reasonably efficient speakers.