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
Con is loss of modularity - can't use different amps/dacs for different headphones easily since tube amps usually are too noisy for planar headphones, some color the sound so you don't want a dark amps with a dark headphone or a bright amp with a bright headphone or else the quality gets to be too harsh for brights or too muddy for darks
I haven't compared an O2 with the headphones I currently have, but it's a nice cost-effective amp but won't power much more than the 250 ohm beyerdynamics headphones effectively. The Magni 3 I have tends to dull the harshness of the highs in favor of mids and lows. It doesn't remove the highs too much, but the portable amps I have are brighter in the highs so you'd lose some of the brightness of the purplehearts, but boost it's lows and mids, almost making it more neutral. I also have the Xduoo x5 DAC/amp which is quiet but brighter than the Magni 3, and an smsl pro II amp which is also brighter than the Magni 3. If you like strong highs, look for solid state amps that aren't the Magni 3, the jotunheim tends to run bright so it might be harsh highs, but that's up to your sound tastes. Most tube amps run dark and enhance bass and low mids and reduce the highs harshness, so they make bright phoneseasier to listen to for longer but remove the bright high quality, but also boost bass since bright phones tend to have weaker bass (relatively, not a direct bright won't have bass, but Sennheiser tend to run bright with softer bass which is why tube amps go well with them, make the highs bearable and increase the bass to decent levels)
Check out the other amps here and on the purplehearts page if they recommend anything. I want the ebony but the extra money compared to regular is more than in my budget now.