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
The Graph above Shows the Stock pad vs the Sheepskin Pad with the attenuation ring. In the sub-bass frequencies (where the headphone sounds nice as it is) you find a pretty good bump and that helps bring those sub frequencies out which, IMHO, really makes the headphone shine. There is also a bit of brightness and clarity that comes with the Sheepskin pad with the ring that you don’t get with the stock pad.
Next up above is the Sheepskin pad with the ring and without. It’s a very similar response as with the above measurement. The bass is given a small boost as are the higher frequencies. Again, it’s all very slight but noticeable to some people and not so much to others.
Down below 500hz, where most of the change in the sonic signature between the pads originates, is highlighted below. You can see that each pad is fairly consistent in it’s amplitude difference compared to the others which I found to be interesting. Again, the addition of the Attenuation ring seems to funnel the low frequencies somewhat and bring them to the fore.
That is all for now. I see that people are interested in the TH900 pad and I can run the comparisons on those too. To my ears, the TH900 Sheepskin pad we sell opens the headphones up quite a lot. It’s definitely different- and when there’s a difference, some people will like it and some won’t. one thing I always keep in the back of my head is that ALL of this is subjective to what you’re listening to. Our tests are run with pink noise but no one in their right mind listens to pink noise so with other material that are heavier in certain ranges the different pads might have the headphones reacting in a different manner. It all depends. I just thought the community would like to see some evidence and then judge for themselves. If anyone has any further questions or comments feel free to hit me up in this forum or elsewhere on the interwebs. We can be found pretty easily these days.