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
The DAC is not designed for you to use the 3.5mm headphone out port to connect to High End headphones (No your Bose QC35s are not high end), or to an audio amplifier of any kind. That's just not what it was designed for. If it was, it would have had a different set of outputs, not a 3.5mm audio jack with integrated mic input.
There are a number of DACs on the market, but USB powered DACs generally don't warrant the extra expenditure. This may change in the future but I can't think of any USB Powered DAC that I would buy in January 2018. Please note that the Cord Mojo and AudioLab mini-DAC mentioned earlier are battery powered DACs.