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
Or something like that. Actual manufacturing and assembly time remains the same, it's just maybe a few suppliers upped their shipping numbers to Sennhaiser.
@Jpull Well just think about it using just-in-time manufacturing.
Raw Materials Inventory: 1. Plastic 2. Metal 3. Driver
Make a headphone. We keep making headphones, we ran out of metal and completed 500 headphones. We can't make headphones until we get more metal for the headbands. Waiting for more metal to come in so we can make more headphones. Look, we got a little bit of metal so we can make 500 more headphones in the process. Well we ran out of drivers, have to wait 2 weeks to get more drivers in from China. The supplier fulfills a partial order for drivers earlier than expected, you got 200 drivers and can make 100 more headphones.
You see it's a giant trickle process slowly making them. On-top of that they have to check QC and make sure the headphones actually work and are within the sonic quality tolerances of that specified headphone. And then they have to package them (another part of your assembly line).
Things can and will go wrong during the manufacturing process increasing waste and increasing the time to manufacture the product. Oops! Our plastic molding machine is injecting too much plastic. Or it went down and we need maintenance to fix it. Our machine to shape the metal part of the headband broke. Maintenance has to come fix it. A working or broken machine will determine how well and how fast you can make a product. And you can't always run them forever because they will eventually need maintenance.
Welcome to the production industry where we make stuff for people to buy.