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
Mine are "burning in." But the immediate sound, fresh from the box, has nice detail, all ranges are adequately present, without any one range being overbearing,thready,or shrill. As usual, a decent amp does improve detail and "heft" to the sound produced.
I feel that these will be nice for listening to acoustic and classical music while doing homework or reading...activities that have you sitting still enough to feel secure wearing these so you can forget about how they feel and hear the quite nice soundstage that these ear speakers have to offer. Because that's kind of what they are; little ear speakers aimed AT your ear canal.
I suspect that adequate burn in will offer another layer of sound quality to my experience... so I may pop back here for a more detailed comment about the sound repro after a week of playing with them.
Summary,(for now); these are a decent set of eccentrically built* ON EAR monitors that you DON'T buy for fit or looks- rather one buys them for the open soundstage offered at the portable level.But only the kind of portability that has you sitting down while wearing them,(not gonna be running in THESE!), and not stressing the fit, or the SKINNY little wires,(I too find them flimsy and lesser, as cabling goes), and using a portable amp for the fuller sound that this widened soundstage makes desireable. They sound NICE. But when you are talking earphones, full-size over-ear all the way down to the smallest, deep IEMS, FIT and COMFORT of wear are HUGE issues... if uncomfortable or wonky enough, you'll never wear them. No matter how good they sound.
Unless these develop a sound that is nothing short of divine....they will likely end up in my "curiosities" box. I'm certainly CURIOUS about what KOSS was thinking, and who's ears they were trying them on, when they designed these WEIRD ear-speakers.... 5-6 on my 0 to 10 scale....but only because they sound pretty good.
* I was actually able to place these on the ears of my fox-terrier more handily than on myself, at first go, LOL!
It wasn't hard getting him to try them out...
good to know that there's a niche for headphones of this kind. ;)
I am partner on several dogs =Breeder of Merit with our kennel. One of my home girls is an Int'l points ch. Her son lives in S. America right now, cleaning up in S and Central Am, rings, after he got his Am. Ch. at the tender age of 10 months...so we have something pretty special going on, I think. That guy's sister lives with me too, so I have Mum and daughter- she has a NON-GENETIC leg malformation, (squished in utero, most likely), that, while preventing her from showing, doesn't prevent her from being a GLORIOUS terrier terrorist of all things mouse and chipmunk and squirrel and so on and so on. She is working on her Therapy Dog certificate, hanging out at the hospital and the Elder Care facility out here. The guy who digs on Koss ear-phones is a SFT rescue; he came from an abuse situation, had some super anxiety issues when he came here. But now he's Mr. "Put Stuff on My Head!" because he's just cool like that. I keep a rescue because I don't think one should do purebred show dogs without paying back to the breed animals who need help. He likes being vacuumed. YES. VACUUMED. I also have a dogpound adoptee, a Chow X Shepherd that was destined for death 12 years ago. I always ALWAYS keep at least one pound-rescue... I also believe that we shouldn't be breeding show dogs if we don't be taking on dogs who spend their lives in shelters. This is true; Upon the death of my pound-dog, immediately after the burial out under the trees on my horse farm, I am off to the pound to snag the next hapless dog needing a forever home. Since I have rather an ideal set-up for all things doggy, I refuse to not use that to benefit animals who just got stuck with the consequences of some humans making bad decisions.... ;) Even one of my horses is a rescue guy.
Guess I'm a sucker for a hard-luck story...
Thanks for asking! SFT's are cool, Dog People are THE BEST!
cheers!
I just figured, since you helped handle a very nice SFT champ, that you might be into them. Chihuahua's are funny little dogs.... I like them. Do yourself a BIG favour; make certain that you do MUCH homework on any show-dog/dog-showing efforts that you want to make. Always a lot of work,(but you knew that, most likely), and that you truly understand the breed-specific needs of your chosen breed. I often advise for folks to "stick with what you know", because it often saves grief in the long road. At least seek the solid advice of somebody who's already in it up to their neck. :-D Of course, if you are not carefully breeding your animals, neuter/spay is the way to go, less dogs to wind up on Craigs or at the pound. ;)
I don't have the time to show...that's what my kennel "Boss" does. I just get to have the good part; where they live with me, chase each other about, kill some stuff in the barn, dig holes in the yard, and sleep on the bed.
hmmmm......lemmesee, another pic for BlueCrowned.....
here's one of the Big Three... pretending to be good before Christmas last year;
Maybe we should start a separate thread or something. 'cus I could go on about this for DAYS. LOL.
Our guy who's now in South America;
The one above in the Fuji hat and at the right-side end of the "peapod" is his sister, Ms. Wonky-leg. Here, she demonstrates with a kennel buddy just how much that,(leg wonky-ness), matters to her;
...and nothin' but trouble.
in a good way......