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
One other important thing is that having a xlr output on your amp does not make it balances or differential; the amp itself can be single ended but uses a SE to balanced converter on the output. For a full differential design of an amp the component count of the amp roughly doubles; you need amplification of L-, L+, R-, R+ and a common ground instead of just L+, R+ and a common ground. That's why full differential designs are usually more expensive (and less common).
Oh...and of course this is the case for all components in your setup (player, pre-amp, amp, dac etc). If one of them is SE, you lose part of the benefits. From my personal experience; it is not a "night-and-day" difference between SE and balanced, but there is a difference. I would describe it as "more controlled"; bass is a bit tighter and some micro-details are not lost.
Also, could you explain to me how an amp can be balanced without being a monoblock? Isn't the IEC ground pin shared for both L/R amps inside a given device?
I don't get your question about balanced and monoblock. You seem to imply that it has to be a monoblock to balanced. But that's not the case. Of course you can build a stereo amp which shares the ground pin. That's what I did when I build me diy (balanced) power amp to drive my speakers. Its basically two monoblocks in one housing (sharing the ground pin and a soft start pcb). But you can also build everything on one pcb if you need to build for a small enclosure (like Cavalli's Liquid Carbon headphone amp).
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