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
A bit more: Audio Engineering/Production is a skill, and it’s equally important as the quality of the recording gear. The microphones were appropriately placed, the different instruments were carefully mixed and edited to make really good use of the dynamic range of quiet and loud volume extremes, and much effort throughout the process was made to keep the recording very clean. Some tracks, albums, and sometimes it seems whole genres are intentionally softened and over-processed to gloss over imperfections or to sound further away from someone singing in a moderately sized empty room. You may have heard of the “Loudness Wars,” and the (volume) compression used in that engineering decision has a large effect on that sense of liveliness and subtlety.
Some other examples of really well mastered “Headphone Food:” ‘Aja‘ by Steely Dan, ‘Graceland’ by Paul Simon, ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ by Pink Floyd, ‘Roadhouses and Automobiles’ by Chris Jones (the CD album, not just the song that appears on the ‘Smoke and Noise’ album), ‘2001’ by Dr. Dre, ‘Random Access Memories’ by Daft Punk... of course the list goes on and on, but I just wanted to drop a few samples :)