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
We use the best possible components available, from the custom would toroidal power transformers, to the chassis bits fabricated from stainless steel and machined aluminum, to every single passive component – capacitors, resistors etc, everything that is crammed into the m920 is painstakingly selected for either its particular sonic quality, reliability or both.
The m920 is the 4th iteration in a lineage of products that we started working on in the late 90's, with every update bringing us together to carefully assess the current state of analog and digital audio design and how it might fit into our design work. From early on, these products have been adapted by audio professionals for critical listening duties. For example – every album that gets mastered at Gateway Mastering, gets its final QC done by a someone listening to it on headphones through one of these, making sure there isn't some low level eq or editing error missed by the mastering engineer. This is because it reveals everything in the recording. Everything. Judging a piece of equipment based solely on a component number or two is missing the point all together. The magic here is about people – our designers and their many, many decades of collective electronic and audio engineering experience. Its not about just picking a certain part number, thats just the starting point. What makes the difference is the million or so educated, complicated, interrelated design decisions that go into applying it properly that results in a successful piece of gear. And the same can be said for measured specifications. Of course we require that our stuff measures well on the bench, but the real test is what happens when you listen to it. Does the music come through to your brain and into your heart? Do you experience the intent of the artist? Do you stop listening to the gear and start listening to the music? You can also measure the quality of a product's design by looking at the manufacturer's warranty. The m920 is covered by a 5 year transferable warranty. We would not be able to offer that if we didn't know unequivocally that 99.9% of them that leave our shop will not come back for repair. The m920 will go head to head with Audiophile equipment that is 4x its price. We are a Pro Audio company, and we operate on Pro Audio industry margins, which are markedly smaller compared to Audiophile industry margins. If you think its only worth $599, then respectfully you simply do not understand it. Truthfully, if we let an accountant do a deep cost analysis of what it costs us to design and build the m920 vs. what you what you can buy it for on here, they would laugh us out of their office.
Currently i am using both Beyerdynamics T5p 2nd and D1170 Pro headphones. Both low impedance and high impedance sound exactly the same and equally wonderfully. (since the impedance of DT1770 Pro is 250 Ω, it is about 10db higher than T5p 2nd).
I think that the standard price $1995 is never high and I think that the price at Massdrop is best deal ever from the quality and value of the product.
Best regards, Thank you.
Grace Design m920 is great product.
audio-gd products are priced much more reasonable for what you get, and they're quite reputable in the community even as a chinese brand, without the fluff. the team at audio-gd is no doubt financially worse off than the team you've described at grace design, yet you don't see them exploiting their situation as an emotional selling point. their products are backed by a 10 year warranty as well.