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
I've always been picky about sound, but didn't really find my way into audiophilia until headphones. I have a reasonably extensive background in piano, and am one of those bat-eared people who can tell you when one instrument is off in the symphony. I grew up with my parent's Bose system, and I think my first real "ah ha" moment was when I replaced those terrible satellite speakers with a Paradigm bookshelf.
From there, audiophilia nervosa slowly wormed its way into my fibre. An iBasso portable with swappable opamps? I was into the deep end now. Then I started into DIY. I didn't even start with cables, oh no I went straight to building amps and mucking around with my own simple circuit designs. I recreated Meier's active balanced ground (like a more advanced version of Ti Kan's active ground) in cmoy form.
Then I managed to wrangle myself an HE-6... and the real neurosis set in. Now I had a top end piece of gear, which meant it was easy to justify needing a better front end to "keep up" with it. Of course, with each new acquisition now the previous component became the bottleneck and so on so forth. I was up to monboblocks at one point.
Then came the Stax...