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
Lately I've been knocked out by the exceptional sound quality of certain YouTube tracks I've been listening to. Not sure why theses particular tracks sound so especially good, but you'll hear it from the very first note in this track (by Boz Scaggs):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K2yQQ3xwdE&t=221s
And this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAB_AJdNyWA
Both tracks are from his "Dig" album. I downloaded the MP3 versions from iTunes and they sound just as good on my equipment (MD's JBL 3 series monitors and MD's Sennheiser 6XX headphones). Not sure why recordings sound so distinctly different but, I suspect some of you will be able to explain it to me.
And, if you're with me so far, here's a bonus, wild-card selection from a guy (Otis Taylor) I'd never heard before but who blew me away with my first listen to this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OG8Fjv42nM
If Boz or Otis is too you taste, their's lots more of each on YouTube; enough to decide weather you want to add any of it to your collection. Would be most interested to hear your impressions of the music and the reason why these recordings sound the way the do...