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
How do you find using the selectable damping factor in the 501?
The whole package just speaks to professional design engineers who know what they're doing - accurately reproduce the performance and leave the "color" to the composers and the musicians where it belongs!
"If I were a rich man".. I'd have Accuphase on the shelf.
The only trouble I've had is with the USB connection. TEAC says it's USB 2.0, but I had to plug it into the USB 3.0 port on my PC to get it to work. Now it may have something more to do with my motherboard than with the DAC, I don't know. But since doing that, the system has worked perfectly every time I turn it on (I've had it for about 1 year now).
By the way, one other nice thing is the 301 will act as a simple pre-amp. So I use it to control the volume on my speaker amps, or the output to the 501, depending on which one is used. Eliminates the need for an additional "master" volume control of some sort.
Your 301 is AC powered, so just clean AC is fine. I simplify [cheat] here with a good UPS, pragmatism again, for both AC (PC & amp) and the USB 5V I use a CyberPower CP1350PFCLCD pure sine wave, protects and cleans;) A good solution to many noise issues, but how this works so well at less than a $1,000.00 is an audiophile mystery...
DSD native studio masters over a new optical link engineered specifically for today and the future, DSD 1024?, is what we need. Not some hand-me-down or half-baked “crossover” stuff from the telephony folks either. Make it for high fidelity audio and someone else can “adopt” it, if they wish. The market is big enough in pure audio to sustain it's own optical standard. Hell,, make it dual frequency, one dedicated for the music stream and the other for data exchange, stop the compromising. The fiber is not the issue, but glass should be the standard, no more plastic,, please..., it is the laser and the transceivers that are key. Today' performance fiber lasers are VCSEL's and the transceiver tech has come a long, long way since the 80's. Yes, we could go back to an all-in-one platform and take away the interconnect problem, then we will stifle competition and innovation,, again... no thanks... just take away the interconnect issue.
Note: Always did wonder when I would get to use the firewire port on my old Dell laptop, never did yet, but then never owned a laserDisc player either. No, not a fan of USB, another committee-kluge...
Then we are done until they start recording with optical microphones;)