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 apparent "sage" who wrote:
"The issue with stiff cables is that it most often leads to an eventual interruption in the audio signal, whereby the signal may begin intermittently cutting off on the effected side(s), and ultimately give out altogether."
Hasn't the slightest clue what he (or possibly she) is talking/writing about.
I have owned DN-1000's for some time now and the cable does indeed stiffen somewhat where it contacts the skin. The stiffening, however, gradually tapers off so that there is nowhere any point where the cable suddenly transitions from stiff to non-stiff.
Rubber/plastic cables only provide insulation, not mechanical strength. Cables (the metal component thereof) become broken due to repeated flexing at a single point. This single point of failure is almost always where a stiff section of the cable abruptly transitions to a non-stiff section. I have owned such IEM's/ cables (i.e.: Ultimate Ears). The cable around the ears is stiff, to allow tailoring it to your ear's contour and the stiff section abruptly ends leaving the remainder of the cable flexible. This creates a point of failure because the cable will naturally bend at the junction of the stiff and non-stiff section. My Ultimate Ears failed for this very reason and I had to have to cable replaced. The Dunu's suffer from no such problem and, in fact, I view the cable stiffening as a "feature" since it causes the cable to adapt to the shape of my ears.
Notice that no references were given substantiating the failure of the Dunu's cables due to stiffening - only the supposed expert's unsupported pronouncements.