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
what's your budget?
personally, with whats offered on the site i say it's a toss up between the hifiman or the sennheisers, both are great for the money, i personally like the hifiman headphones a tad bit more, they are more comfortable to me and the built quality is amazing imo.
one of those should be the one you end up going home with imo,also personally i've found the $300 price point to be kinda strange, alot of the headphones that i really end up liking miss that number for some reason, it's like the $200 ones tend to be more or less just as good as the $300 but not as good as the phones in the $400-500 range, so when i tend to either buy headphones around the $200 price point or the $400-500 price point if that makes any sense, i know it sounds strange it's just what always ends up happening when i have $300 to spend on headphones, i end up only spending $200 and keeping the rest or get frustrated and just scrape another couple hundred together for something truly special.... but not every situation calls for a $400-500 pair of headphones, for work i wouldn't blame you for not going there...basically what i am saying here is when you are pricing these out don't assume something like the beyerdynamics are crap because they are a good deal cheaper than some of the others on the list, i personally think all of the headphones on the list are excellent headphones that lean towards bass, i left v-moda off my list precisely for that reason, i just don't think they are worth the money even if they were discounted below that of the beyers....
and remember to do some shopping around, prices can be had a bit cheaper than whatever a quick search turns up and if you save $120-130 out of the $300 you were thinking about spending you can pick up decent little amp for that to go with 'em.... I'm considering the little bear p7 myself right now as a cheap little amp to experiment with, looks kinda interesting and have heard good things about it, beyond that you could snag a little dot I if you have a desk job...i really don't know what you own already or what you are doing over there, just something to consider, something like the little bear P7 will not only power your headphones better than say a phone or some computers but it'll influence the tone a bit due to the fact it's a tube amp..just something to consider.
hope that helps in some regard, remember to do your own research and auditions, this hobby is far to subjective to take ANYONE'S word for it.