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
Expect the headphones to play similar music best.
The idea of a 3 driver headphone is rather flawed though. The only other audiophile grade multi-driver over/on ear headphone I have listened to is the Final Audio Design Sonorous (previously Pandora Hope) product line.
The main issue is phasing around the crossover and the modulation distortion that is a result... even though that won't show in most AP measurement plots.
Having a balanced radiator in a headphone seems kind of useless... never seen a headphone driver with a Q over 0.7 before, and I seriously doubt that the LF driver can reach an suitable CX point to a balanced armature if it has a Q that would necessitate the passive radiator.
The only engineering reason there might be for the radiator is to avoid conflict with "prior art" or to establish some level of sufficient novelty from an intellectual property standpoint.
However, it is possible that the headphones still sound nice. Coaxial speakers often have a tweeter mounted in the center of the woofer, but still offer a reasonably smooth on-axis response. It could be that the phase rotation introduced by the tweeter's high pass filter moves the constructive peaks out of the range of irritation.
I say all that to say, I really don't know whether these will sound good or not. For the money, though, I'd be more likely to grab a pair of AKG K7XX or Sennheiser HD 6XX. Those seem like less risky designs to me.
My 2-way Pandora Hopes are EASILY the most revealing headphones I own. They are also fatiguing, and just about the least forgiving headphones I have ever heard.
I'm really just encouraging people to recognize the difference between marketing and reality... just because the headphones have 3 drivers, doesn't mean they are "better".
The FAD Pandora Hopes are metal diaphragms with a particularly harsh BA for the tweeter. These headphones might not fatiguing (or revealing).
I didn't realize this was a 10khz CX at 6db/octave. That's pathetic.
Re: HPF details, I just guessed based on @ZeosPantera's description a few comments up: "... and a 10k soft Crossover point for the tweeter".