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
...which happens to be an over-the-ear AND on-ear headphone at the same time. Meaning there is a full but shallow circumferential ear cushions with a (memory?) foam pad inside resting on top of the ear. I can only guess this was done for isolation and/or portability. I find it weirdly comfortable (because I didn't expect it to be) and have used them for 3-4 hours straight without discomfort. That said, anyone with overly large, protruding and/or other abnormal ears might not find them as comfortable.
I found these to benefit from amping (home Schiit stack and portable CCE), but more so in refinement rather than outright night-and-day difference.
Please share which ear pads you switched to!
My one concern with them comes from the hinge system on the AKG. There is a corner that presses into the pad while I'm wearing them so it will eventually wear a hole there and I'll eventually have to replace the earpad. I'm interested in angled ear pads for that reason, but haven't tried any yet.
http://www.amazon.com/JBL-J88-Over-Ear-Headphones-Rotatable/dp/B009IKCE70
Not hard to swap out. Pretty much like any other ear pad exchange but maybe a little harder to accomplish. Overall the K267 makes changing out ear pads very easy since there's a notch in the rim to slide the pad through and since they're round you just have to keep twisting to get them on until the last 1/8 turn or so.
FYI: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Replacement-Ear-Pads-Cushion-For-JBL-J88-J88A-J88I-Over-Ear-Headphones-/251871039587?rmvSB=true