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
Personally, I use a 5.2.2 setup for watching movies/gaming but when playing music I always go into Pure Direct mode for 2ch stereo. Mind you, this is in a larger room with loudspeakers at a distance of ~10ft from the seating position and roughly 8 feet between them angled at roughly 30 degrees from center. Despite being in stereo, it's very holographic and can fill a room easily with sound. However, every now and then, I do run 2ch with presence speakers and that does add an interesting bit of height but it's very track/genre specific. Really the only time I even use 7ch stereo is when listening to classical and usually have an appropriate hall-effect DSP to add in some reverb, delay, echo, etc.
Here's a diagram with placements and angles to give you a better idea:
Honestly, it may be wise to invest in a budget AVR as these days they have microphones that can dial in the sound for wiring, distance, and various speaker layouts to suit a room. They're not 100% but they do get damn close and you can always dial-it in yourself and EQ as necessary. Even if you wanted to forego a traditional surround setup (5.1), you could always run a "front surround" setup and it would virtualize the rears to the front channels. I have a similar setup in my smaller office that is technically a 5.1 setup but all from the front. You could also forego the rears and run a 3.1 setup to achieve most of the effect since the rear channels would be routed to the fronts and processed accordingly by the AVR. I only recommend the latter if your room is on the smaller size but it would do a fairly good job of giving you a "surround sound" despite not having read speakers.