Thank you for your help my friend. I adjusted the volume the way you suggested and someone else said to play with sample rate. By doing both of those the Sennheisers sound wonderful now, I haven’t tried the others because I don’t want to take these off now lol

Thank you my friend. Another person told me I should be maxing my windows volume out and adjusting with the amp only so I tried that and upped the sample rate. It sounds wonderful now

What do people usually use for their sample rate? As high as it goes? Mine is just defaulted to 24 bit 48k but I can go to 96k or 192k or lower. I’ll play around with it

I’ll try running a different device. I’m waiting for the iPhone dongle but I’ll go dig out my old Samsung phone and see what happens

I’ve tried both the audio out on the board itself and the front audio Jack with similar results. I’ll give your other suggestion a go, I wasn’t sure which volume adjustment was correct. I was just turning the audio up on the amp then fine adjusting with windows

I’m assuming it’s a Chinese veggie cleaver which are usually carbon steel not stainless. The biggest thing is you shouldn’t ever leave it wet. Wiping the blade off between cuts is a good idea especially if you’re going to set it down for a minute. No dishwasher for any knife no matter what steel type. Hand wash and dry then put a thin layer of oil over the steel to protect it before storage. After regular use carbon steel develops a patina which will help protect the blade from rusting.

If you forgot to dry it it will rust so get a rust eraser. They’re little rubber blocks with abrasive in them that’ll rub the rust off and it’s fine again. Sometimes I’ll chop for too long without wiping and the blade will start flash rusting and I have to get the rust eraser out.

If it’s stainless then just no dishwasher.