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 only record players I've ever heard have been old-timey, bought in the 1950's, buried in dust and my grandparent's house ones. Not the best to compare against. I can say that I do notice more degradation of sound quality as more DSP is applied to a signal. It follows that an all analog source will be better, at least temporarily, than a digital source since DSP is as inherent as signal loss. I don't have a good feel for where the source degradation of the record overtakes loss from converting the analog sound to the lossless digital file in terms of signal loss.
IMHO, I think it really comes down to personal usage. I listen to my digital files many, many times. If you do the same I think you'll be happier with a digital rig because your vinyl will wear, but your 1's and 0's won't. If you're more the type to sporadically play a record infrequently, stay vinyl.
I have many FLACs and used to feel the same way, until I A-B compared between FLAC and WAV. WAV wins hands down.
It is totally possible that you did hear a difference, but that wasn't FLACs fault. More likely something was being added or subtracted in another software layer.
I can call a dog a pigeon, but that doesn't change what it is.
You can draw out diagrams about how it works and stomp your feet and scream all you want, but if I can hear the DSP in it, it's not the same.
So far, I've done this test on only 2 players and been able to tell the difference. Both cases I prefer the WAV.
Not entirely scientific in my approach, but I don't want to spend the money on every player there is to find out.