Razer barracuda X volume problem

[Pekopecheli]

Hello, I've got a volume problem with my Razer Barracuda X's.

The issue is that listening through the type-c dongle on my phone and it's limited at about 70% (My own estimation) of what the headphones are capable of on full volume. While my phone volume is at max and so are the headphones.

This bothered me but I'm currently away at camp so I lived with it for the past 4 weeks until this morning. I had been listening for the past hour when suddenly I got my ears destroyed by the volume, seemingly "unlocking" itself and starting to blast at the volume it's supposed to.

Nothing on my phone changed, the dongle wasn't moved, no software thingies to make it act this way. I enjoyed my music for another 30-ish minutes, thinking that they must have fixed themselves, somehow. I unplugged the dongle, laid my headphones on the table and went about my business.

The weird thing is that, later today I pick them up and expect them to blast at full volume again but I'm met with the same 70%-ish sound and it just rubbed me the wrong way.

So far I've tried everything that I could think of, tried moving the dongle around, played around with the headphone volume adjuster, trying the dongle on other phones to see if the volume would be fixed but nothing is working.

(These are my second pair of Barracuda X's, the first ones I've had 0 problems with).
Would really appreciate if someone has any idea of what's going on and whether or not I just got unlucky with a faulty unit. =)

[191x7]

Is it an active or passive dongle?

[Pekopecheli]

6 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Is it an active or passive dongle?

I don't know the difference, it's just this thing and I plug it into my charging port

[191x7]

43 minutes ago, Pekopecheli said:

I don't know the difference, it's just this thing and I plug it into my charging port

Passive - uses the AMP/DAC (sound system) of the device (phone, tablet) and can't be used as a PC soundcard.

Active - has it's own AMP/DAC inside, works on any USB-C device.

 

Yours looks a lot like

 

Such usually have DAC-s inside.

 

You'd need one with a better AMP.

 

DAC = digital to analog converter

AMP = amplifier

 

I am amazed how well these work, check them out:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003955547612.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.36.1b541802bbowJx

 

But I'd ditch that Razer landfil trash and get something that actually sounds good.

IEM-s like 7HZ Salnotes Zero, QKZ x HBB, Truthear Zero or such. 20-50$.

Even the Moondrop Quarks DSP would be fine. 15$