I seem to be having a problem with my PC 363D G4ME sound card/ driver. Basically every time I restart my PC the blue LED on the sound card that indicates that dolby surround sound is on disappears along with the driver application in the system tray. But when I uninstall my driver in windows add/remove the led and application come back again.
is it enabled? have tried unpluging the headset uninstalling the drivers and then restarting and reinstalling without the head phones plugged in? If you have tried reinstallation I would check out your enabled devices i usually have to disable everything that isn't plugged in and/or being used to my sound to run correctly (i dont have sennheiser anything).
right click on the speaker icon in the bottom right and go to playback devices and record devices. Also check to see if you got driver for old headphones as they may be doing something in the back ground and you dont want that.
Worst case scenario is that the drivers need to be replaced, and the closest thing to original HD580 drivers that Sennheiser still produces today, are the HD600 drivers. Allegedly with new production HD600 drivers, the resulting sound will vary only a slight amount at most compared to the originals, likely an insignificant amount.
Anyway, because of the above, we've advised choir members with issues to go and buy the Sennheiser PC8 USB headset. It works like a charm in literally just a couple of clicks, on all platforms. The strange thing is that one member bought the Sennheiser PC8.2 USB. The 8.2 is supposed to be a new version of the 8, and is substantially more expensive. Those two thigs are not important here, however.
What matters most is that, try as I might, I cannot get her headset to work in Jamulus. i have tried default settings (obviously), but also tried enabling all combinations of settings the ASIO4All driver has to offer (Hardware buffer, force WDM to 16bit and the infamous 44.1kHz sample rate). I could simply not get it to work.
Outside of Jamulus, in Zoom, for example, the headset works just fine. My guess is that, despite advertising in the ASIO4All driver that it can handle 48kHz, it actually can't. However, as I've said above, for some strange reason, Jamulus won't work at all with 44.1kHz on Windows. So having her try that resulted in a hard crash of Jamulus. Luckily, I managed to reverse that setting to its off state, but still we cannot get the PC8.2 to work, whilst its predecessor, the PC8, works just fine.
Im pretty sure there are different variations of this driver. The cheapest one being in the 559 although that one is a lower impedance and higher sensitivity. Still a similar design to the 150ohm version