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
...but that's just me. It's likely other persons aren't as fumble fingers as I can be. especially before coffee.
That said i feel more is lost by not having a detachable cable than what is gained by it, i watched a few vids on replacing the cable on these beyers and it looked like more than i wanted to deal with at this stage in my audio hobby, think im going to pick up some broken cans for dirt cheap on fleabay and see how it goes fixing and modding those before i buy a brand new set of cans and rip into them straight away....im sure id be OK, im an ME who plays with robotics alot so pretty decent with a soldering iron and my hands, nothing like an actuall EE though and to be honest some of the skills i see from hobbiest blows me away so i try to be a bit reserved in the assement in what i can actually do and still have it look good.
Point being, i think its alot to ask to replace a cable on a set of $200 cans when you can just buy a $15 cable and plug it right in.
Vid on replacing cable.
I'm all coolio with people having different prefs and needs in gear. sounds like you NEED to be able to swap in cables. some pretty interesting improvements in gear started with builders deciding to change up on how a rig wears, turned into headphones that have a unique sound, that is in some ways better than the previous version.
goodluck with all the electronics munchers! :)