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
This post may be of interest:
"Regarding the drivers, as D50 uses the XU208 it is safe to say this: <cut> Linux versions that are compliant with UAC2 don't need driver. Same goes for MacOS 10.6 (and newer) and Android 4.2 (and newer). With Android you also need OTG support and cable."
https://audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-and-measurements-of-topping-d50-dac.2403/page-13#post-71495
I had to completely remove PulseAudio, its associated libraries, and ALSA-Plugins (a plugin which pipes ALSA output to PulseAudio), and rebooted. Once that was done (and now that the PulseAudio libraries are gone), I was able to recompile DeadBeef to use ALSA only.
However this sort of borked my system and none of the pulse audio aware apps would play sound. I had to use a seperate sound card for my other apps.
For this reason, I reverted back to PulseAudio. Also it upsamples pretty nicely.