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
I eagerly swapped out the pads and noticed several things.
The Dekoni pads are built well. Unlike the stock Beyer velour pads, these have in a thin piece of stretchy acoustically transparent fabric to help protect the drivers I guess. Unfortunately the Beyers already have fabric there on the cans themselves so you will be doubling up on the fabric.
The Beyer stock velour pads taper out from the inside center which I believe adds to the roominess, comfort and airyness. The Dekoni pads, while are comfortable do not taper at all.
I noticed that the back side of the Beyer stock velours have a plastic ring that the earpads attach to are perforated. the Leather on the Dekoni pads are not.
My immediate impression of the Dekonis were that they were comfortable. I fired up my Foobar to listen to some of the Flac files I have (as played through a Grace M9xx DAC/AMP and then into a DarkVoice 336se headphone amp and was amazed as to how terrible the Beyers suddenly sounded.
The bass was heavier but not in a pleasant way with a boost in the mid bass region that muddied up the sound and stepped all over the midrange. The airy sheen on the treble was also gone from my music and the Beyers suddenly took on the characteristics of a closed back headphone but not a very good set.
Puzzled, I swapped out only one side back to the stock Beyer velours and listened to nothing but the room ambience. I was shocked at the stark difference I heard where the Dekoni side sounded like I had a hand cupped over that ear by comparison. To be thorough, I then reversed the headphones to confirm it was the earpads and not me.
I am disappointed to say that these earpads basically kill all that is good about the Beyerdynamic DT990 pros.
I have reached out Dekoni as the print on the bottom of the lid states that "If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with this product please reach out to us on our webpage or social media and we will be happy to assist you"
Let's see what they are willing to do.