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
Closed phones tend to have a lot more character to them, and given the tendency towards polarized opinions on different ones, I suspect a lot of that is due to your head and ears being part of a *sealed* enclosure that varies per person, on top of preferences and varying types of ideal FR curves used by the different brands. In some cases, just getting and keeping a seal makes all the difference (if my head moved too much, Shure SRH940s would lose it temporarily, so I'm not sure how they would have fared if they fit my head better, as an example).
I've not found better than the AKG K271 mkII, for myself, though I did not expect that at all when I bought them. Instead of finding that going up the cost ladder yielded better results, with them being another stepping stone and reference point, I found improving my source and amp brought me to a plateau, where good recordings just *sound really good* (not to call them perfect by any stretch, but they match well with my head and brain, in ways that far outweigh their weaknesses *for me*). Descriptions of the sound from negative reviews, when reasonably well articulated, often do not sound like what I hear, and I am not alone in that. While not everyone likes them to the same degree, for example, the K240 mkII, which are basically an open variant, has a sound everyone agrees on. This dissonance is seen in discussions of other closed headphones, as well (I just happen to be extremely familiar with my favorite pairs, and if you can't already tell, have a preference towards AKG's sound :)), much more so than open ones.
Not to discourage at all, nor offer a specific recommendation; just that there's a reason there are so many of them, and so many different opinions, at most reasonable price points; and that finding a given pair to not sound good to you for $X does not mean you have to spend $10X for one that sounds good to you. You might just have to research, try, scratch one off the list, and repeat that a couple times, even if you are comparing with good information.
IoW, if you don't match up well to a given closed headphone, try another well-regarded one in the same price range, before thinking you need to spend much more to get quality sound.