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
This is really unfortunate, but I won't place blame on anyone as I have no idea where the breakdown happened (factory? distributor? vendor?). Sometimes it is what it is. Le sigh. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
"The ohm they mark on the top of the box is the actual ohm. All of Beyers boxes have that same UPC on the bottom like that usually and they put over a printed sticker depending which ohm it is. I am assuming since these are custom they just did not do it since there is not a registered UPC for this product since it is custom.
Same thing with the cable that usually shows the ohm since the custom models they can make in any ohm they do not put the ohm on the cable so they don’t have to keep all three cables in stock since the hardware is identical for the cable. The only thing different are the drivers in the headphones."
Thank you very much for the detailed updated. I have never purchased a custom Beyer item before, so I have no basis to agree/disagree without additional research.
However, given the typical markups and wait times of Manufaktur headphone I would have thought Beyer would pay more attention to the build and packaging details (not less) compared with their regular distributed headphones. And if the UPC and box print is the same across the line, why choose 250 Ohm instead of just a blank space for a sticker? Just seems very un-German like LOL
That said, my only real concern is for future resale value (and easy of transaction) on second hand market. As of right now, it would just be my word that is its a 600 Ohm model and not 250 or 32 Ohm...time for some more research...
http://www.head-fi.org/t/785637/beyerdynamic-dt-880-edition-manufaktur-600-ohm http://www.head-fi.org/t/501389/fs-beyerdynamic-dt-880-600-manufaktur
So if the vendor is correct, this means Beyer randomly indicates Ohm rating at their convenience and/or available parts? I am finding this difficult to believe. Again, I am not done with my research, but I currently I am not convinced it is not just vendor trying to escape accountability.
EDIT: This might end up being a double post as my browser crashed when I tried to submit first version of this reply.