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
So for me, that is what made these go from "my god I'm going to have to return these or just give them away" to "I can definitely live with these. I'd call this arrangement: good detail, smooth, good soundstage, very isolating.
Now the "problem" is I tried the same tips on my $10 inateck woody IEMs and they also improved a lot, to the point where I think I still prefer them. They're bass monsters, but no in a bloated way with the conform TX400 tips. I used the Jazz EQ setting on the iPhone with that setup and they reminded me a lot of the THX00 (again, in signature, not refinement).
I also have the "sport" conform tips that I'll probably try out as well.
But yeah, big sigh of relief, because my initial response with the stock tips and the silver filter was "no amount of burn in will ever make me like this signature, and no way an iPhone EQ setting can fix this either."
My take on the filters:
Gold sort of leaves the base signature alone. And the base signature seems to be really treble hot. I guess it makes sense given the inverted dynamic driver and metal construction. The gold signature almost reminded me of an extreme version of the old SR325i.
Silver cuts 8kHz but otherwise stays the same as the gold response. Basically it digs an 8k hole, to make it less sibilant. To my ears though, this instead made it sound simultaneously bright yet distant.
Black cuts 4kHz-12kHz. It's not so much "bassy" as it is lower midrange-y. It sounds really muddy to me, though much smoother than silver.
So, to me Gold was the best starting point, as I found treble the easiest to tame via tips + EQ. While silver probably sounds the best with no adjustments, it's also the hardest to adjust without resorting to parametric EQ, because the peaks and dips are so extreme.
But if you ignore everything else BUY THE CONFORM TIPS. they're 129834729837423 times better than the stock tips in sound, comfort and isolation.