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
Every time I listen to the AKGs, I wonder if there's something wrong with the pair I got, or if I just have way, way different hearing than the people fawning over them on Massdrop. Hollow, tinny, distant, cold, fatiguing. It's such a shame, because they're wonderfully built headphones. And because I really miss my $120.
There is a treble spike - measurements on changstar showed it as being around 8k - but due to the gradual slope down from 20hz to 4khz it just brings a small range of highs up to the output level of the lows, and keeps the overall impression of the set from being excessively dark.