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
Jokes aside, we priced these as agressive as possible, but extra stuff costs extra money and JBL really doesn't inflate the price of the 305 like many audio companies do (thus allowing our versions to come in at dramatically lower price points).
Where a paint or vinyl wrap finish takes a few minutes to apply, the lacquer finish in the 30X requires many layers to be applied in a completely dust-free room, allowed to dry over the course of hours, applied again, dried again, repeat many many times and you can understand the additional cost involved.
To achieve channel matching within 1db, again you've got an expensive time consuming process. Instead of two units coming off the line, getting put in a box, and going out the door, those units come off the line and they go to a sorting stage. There they're measured and matched to a sister speaker with a response within 1db of an exact match. This takes more time and it means there are some drivers that never make the cut, resulting in a lower yield rate and again higher cost.
Finally for isolation feet, the rubber needs to have specific properties that suit the goal of isolating speakers. Generally rubber feet are very cheap because hundreds of millions are being made. These feet are custom made for this product and the per unit cost on ~10,000 is a lot higher than ~100,000,000.
Ultimately, the community has to decide if these improvements are worth the additional cost, but we've done everything in our power to make it as easy a decision as possible.
the glossy paint adds to it, though personally I could do without the gloss. The 1 dB matching is the real selling point here. For some that won't matter as much as to others.
Each person has to decide if its worth it to them.
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I work in mechanical engineering. We specify vibration dampening feet for the kind of equipment that can vibrate a building apart. Matching the material to the type of vibration you want to eliminate, and the weight of the equipment in question takes a lot more effort than you realize, and I can assure you, it absolutely does cost something.
Unless you just want to put some Bumpons under them... then it'll only be about $10 for a 100 pack. Of course, it won't isolate anything outside of a narrow frequency range which may or may not be within your range of hearing anyway. But it'll keep your table from scuffing the gloss finish, at least.
Now I'm not trying to say it's worth $100 for the feet. My only argument here is that specifying feet for vibration isolation isn't as simple as you seem to think. An Amazon search for "rubber feet" doesn't cut it, if you want it to cut vibration properly. No, I think most of that money is going into JBL's time. Off the top of my head, I'd guess maybe $5 at most is for the feet. I know JBL and Massdrop both can get a better deal in bulk on quality feet than you and I can on Amazon. I think probably 25% of the upcharge is going to the gong towards the gloss lacquer finish, and the bulk of it is going to JBL's time to level-match EVERY PAIR that goes out.
Actually, I should step back a bit here. I'm giving JBL and Massdrop the benefit of the doubt, and ASSUMING they're doling the work to properly spec the feet, because they're not 3M Bumpons. I could be completely wrong -- they might have just grabbed some 3-cent rubber hemispheres off the shelf.
Makes me wonder tho - is JBL doing the same sensitivity matching for woofer and tweeter within the same speaker? Since this affects the frequency response of the single speaker sold, wouldn't this be an even bigger deal compared to 2 speakers each with their volume control?
a) If JBL isn't doing this woofer-tweeter matching, then their driver variation is small enough b) If JBL is doing this woofer-tweeter matching and correcting, if they can correct the sensitivity of one driver, why wouldn't they correct the sensitivity of both?