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
Moving these components outside of the form factor of your CE gear allows you to overcome many of those compromises.
DAC: digital to analog converter. The electrical signal that speaker diaphragms react to is analog (think manipulation of a wave's form and frequency on spectrum analyzer). Digital Music doesn't start life in this form, it's encoded into binary information packets (1s and 0s). The DAC takes the binary, and as faithfully as possible, translates that to an analog signal.
AMPs: The Amp takes that(often very weak) analog signal from that DAC and amplifies it to have enough energy to actually move the speaker's physical architecture, which in turn produces sound.
Thanks again for the help.
Differences in DACs is mostly due to filters used, sampling, noise shaping and power. Some DACs, like the Mojo let's you select different filters. Even things like bass boost can be considered as changing the sound of the DAC.
Then there's things that make a difference but it's not huge, like jitter, DAC chip, number of chips per channel, input receivers, topology etc.
I also think that everyone will eventually be able to hear the differences in presentation between DACs, it is inevitable. When you first break into the audiophile world, it's new and your ears aren't used to it. Once your ears gain some XP and level up, they will be more sensitive to variations in presentation.