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
Far are as the EDC3 I’d probably recommend the shure 215 instead as they are fully proven and can be find slightly cheaper than the Nu. IEMs are quite a bit more sensitive than standard earbuds so I’d get whatever set you go with then worry about sourcing from there
I recommend the Fiio A2 as a cheap amp for on the go - it's well made and does everything it needs to and then some. (I maaay have one kicking around, but it possibly got sold after a recent move)
If you're dead-set on a combo I'd check out the Dragonfly line - the Red has better Amping, but costs 2.5x as much as the less powerful black edition. I own the DFRed, and find it to be somewhat lacking in terms of sound quality/$, but it wins out in terms of convenience and connectivity to my Idevices as well as my pc, mac, and android systems. 100/Black 250/Red I was much more impressed by the Centrance DacPort's sound, though the form factor is slightly larger and again unless you spring a decent additional chunk the amplification you're looking for is not there. 80/Slim 2xx/Mini
Schitt has an offering in this area as well, but I cannot speak for the sound as they have released a new model recently ( I believe it's called the Fulla Schitt - LOL)
So I was looking for a DAC with USB-C and found out that there's nothing out that there that is natively USB-C ... yet.
I've decided no more DACerry until manufacturers have implemented USB-C, not only for the convenience of having fully reversible cables (and to make use of my new laptop's solitary USB-C hole because it looks lonely) but because USB-C will give manufacturers so much more power to play with when designing DACs.
Energy flows where attention goes, as they say, so I'm not giving any more of my attention to microUSB or USB-A gear if I can help it.
I can't believe its taking the audio companies so long to develop USB-C native products because it solves so many problems and gives so many options to them.
The dragonflies are popular. But to use them you'll need an OTG usb cable for the data flow.