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
IMO 320kbit lossy is just silly. If I want something max quality or for archival purposes, I'm going lossless (redbook is fine). If I just want it to sound good, and save some space so I can fit it all on my portable player, I'm fine with ogg q5 or q6, (160 or 192 ABR IIRC?) I generally keep all of my music as flac (rips from my CD collection, or ones I've purchased in lossless format), and I have an ogg copy of the entire tree, which I use on my portable player(s)
I _never_ convert lossy to lossless, or transcode lossy to another bitrate. (This sounds like hell, and wastes space)
When comparing online sources, you need to keep in mind that not all services follow my standards. I have spotify premium, and regardless of what bitrate they're feeding it to me at, there is "A LOT" of music that was clearly transcoded from trash-tier sources. Bubbly sounding under-water pre-echoes, and cymbals that sound like they're running through a chorus pedal, etc. This doesn't mean ogg q6 (or whatever spotify streams at) is bad. It means that they've transcoded low quality sources. It's like taking a high-res photo of a low res print.