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
Firstly: Know safe limits. No amount of exercise or force of will can make your ears stronger, and loud music over different periods of time can perminently damage your hearing (you can‘t fix them, and hearing aids suck) each time you overdrive them. If you love music loud, listen for less time...
Knowledge: http://dangerousdecibels.org/education/information-center/noise-induced-hearing-loss/ More Knowledge: http://dangerousdecibels.org/education/information-center/decibel-exposure-time-guidelines/
Secondly: Clearer. Sometimes, we turn up the volume to hear quiet details or to compete with the environmental noise around us.
I’m literally in a rainstorm right now, and I‘m tempted to turn up my music a bit to compete with the fat raindrops (though I don’t dare compete with the thunder). Instead, I switched to a closed headphone, lowering how much environmental noise interferes with what I want to hear. IEMs should provide good noise isolation though, some more than others.
That said, a better DAC (Digital to Audio Converter, all headphones operate with Analog signals and so our digital music needs to be converted somehow). Cheap DACs produce the same notes as expensive ones, but an upgraded DAC helps make each note more distinct and more accurately match your brain’s reference of what natural sound is. Transducers (headphones and speakers) need amplification to make sound at all, but Amps all fuzzy up the sound to some extent, but better and better amps cause less and less distortion, plus you need the volume control. An upgrade to these components might make the sounds so clear and crisp that you can enjoy it more even without turning up the volume.
Lastly, there are some apps that playback audio cleaner than just straight from TIDAL or the Apple Music app. I’m looking to Amarra Play, which has a free mode to play music stored in your phone and added to the iTunes library, and a paid mode that lets you stream from your computer or TIDAL. I haven’t tried it yet, but friends I trust rave about Amarra‘s sound quality: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amarra-play/id1061144320?mt=8 Also heard rave things about this: Neutron Music Player by Neutron Code Limited https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/neutron-music-player/id766858884?mt=8 Sennheiser‘s CapTune app plays TIDAL and local iTunes content, has a nice EQ tool that uses A/B comparisons to help you find your taste and can save EQ profiles for each headphone (especially nice with Bluetooth): CapTune by Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/captune/id967958634?mt=8