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
https://helpdesk.massdrop.com/hc/en-us/articles/216539348-How-does-Massdrop-work-
MSRP stands for manufacturer's suggested retail price as I'm sure most people are aware - the manufacturer here being Sennheiser, and here is their suggested (and enforced) retail price of $499.
https://en-us.sennheiser.com/high-quality-headphones-around-ear-audio-surround-hd-650
Can they be had for like $300 elsewhere (if not then during black friday etc at least)? Sure. Still, what Massdrop states is categorically correct and you and @westwest cannot deny that and/or find a workaround as for why Massdrop should offer these for less than they are. It can have nothing to do with greed (I'm not stating it doesn't), anyone familiar enough with headphones and audio gear can see $199 was too low of a price for Sennheiser to reasonably profit from their end of the deal, the increased price may (or may not) have to do with production costs alone; if it's not profitable for them, they increase the cost. Not about greed but about proper business structure and handling. People are obviously buying them.
Lead times are predicated on what the manufacturer provided as an estimated lead time. Same thing that happens in any made to order business.
I'm not going to argue semantics regarding Massdrop's wording any more, I've said my piece and what I asserted stands regardless of whether or not a meteor or some otherworldly event happens within the next 6 months and they plummet below $250 on Sennheiser's official USA online store.
You can hate Massdrop all you want but they are thriving and deservingly so - there's no need for delusions of grandeur, just because you've had bad experiences with them doesn't mean others have. I've been a part of like 50 to 100 drops by now as have other people I am close with and we have yet to run into a single problem, yet you don't see me advocating for them everywhere I go. That's basic confirmation bias, you had a bad experience (or multiple, somehow) so you feel the need to share your situations with others whereas I (and others) do not.
PS: I'm not defending the price increase here nor am I standing up for Massdrop, all I did was debunk the nitpicking that was being had above and give Sennheiser (and MD to an extent) the benefit of the doubt as I think it is perfectly warranted in this situation, knowing the headphone market pretty well myself.
I'm simply saying that the general idea of a group buy is to decrease individual price by increasing overall sales volume. At a certain price floor, the price does not continue to drop. That is Massdrop's core business model, and it strikes a balance between benefiting both manufacturers and consumers. When the price and volume both go up, suddenly the balance shifts sharply in favor of the manufacturer.
Another way of looking at this is to classify these two drops as a single drop (since this is a Massdrop exclusive product that's only 6 months old, that's not too unreasonable), and see if it still makes sense.
0 sales| $350 5000 sales| $200 5001 sales | $250 12500 sales | $250