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've noticed that several less experienced MD members have been referring to these as earbuds, which misleads potential buyers and doesn't address the purpose and inherent limitations of clip-ons, which Koss clearly is trying to address by combining that style with slight inserts. People who are attempting to get their bearings tend to repeat the most commonly used word on a thread. If these were mere earbuds and not a reinvention of one of the things that Koss does best, then the distinction wouldn't matter.
Something else that people should know: this style of headphone is traditionally warm and clear but, due to the distanced proximity of speaker to ear, isn't known for its bass and comes from a time when headphone hobbyists tended not to be bassheads. I'm guessing that Koss wanted to try a new approach to that issue, but I doubt that the result is bass-heavy. I'm also guessing that the member who dismissed earbuds as "worthless" earlier in the thread might have been expecting more bass or conflating stock earbuds with all earbuds.
In any case, it wouldn't be fair if these failed to sell because potential buyers were misinformed and not apprised of the Koss tradition.