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
You may very well be right. I'm looking for real confirmation though. None of this changes the possible reality of what I've said. It's not my imagination that's at work here which I'm trying to push. I'm not sure why you have issue showing, or with others expressing, possible doubt.
My submission is that I don't know. I want to know for sure and you don't know "for sure" any more than I do. What's wrong with me looking for confirmation beyond that? We live in a capitalist system. Taking people's word is naive given why there would be any value for the person you're making most any transaction with in the first place. A company's word means nothing. If it weren't true, they can easily cover whatever it was by saying that they just meant that the design was actually the same, but there may be some other variability for x number of reasons in the end.
It still wasn't definitive, but I guess it would be safe to say they sound similar enough where someone like me would probably want to make whatever further necessary modifications. Given how much I WASN'T a fan of the 650's when I tried them however, I'm skeptical about those mods fixing all the perceived issues.
How about let me be specific. I was looking into these headphones for professional audio applications - mainly mixing. By your definition alone, insane would also be all the people on that forum (who's reviews and investigation into the matter you used to mindlessly gloat) that spent the time analyzing these headphones, going in such "crazy" depth, like going as far as producing measurements in graphs, and gasp, taking the headphones apart and modding them by taking like quarter size pieces of the foam out and filling in areas with dynamat, claiming that by no means this may actually be exhaustive of what's out there and can be done. Man, these crazy obsessive people. They should ALL see a doctor and get a life. For that matter, so should any scientist, especially those with higher IQ's. They all fit quite nicely into your projection of insanity.
As a side note, people side with and upvote that which they would already be thinking in the first place. They weren't looking through our conversation carefully reading what's been said. I can guarantee you they simply went right over my responses because they don't care and it would be irrelevant to them. It's not the same as having an open debate about a subject people are contending with which they expressly came to listen and deliberate on.
As for these not being good mixing headphones, people tout them as being one of the absolute best for this all the time actually. I partly agree (at least with the 600's) for imaging, but that's not an inherently true statement, even though as stated, I would otherwise largely agree with it. My point was that, for my purposes, there's a much greater demand for accuracy and that's precisely (and quite simply) what I further wanted to investigate and therefore inquired about. You're the one who made all this into a big deal.
Anyway, my point is that you wanted something very specific and after lots of chatter someone finally pointed to a helpful review. I'm not sure why people seem so harsh. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your music system. I know I will.
What I'm looking for are essentially neutral headphones which don't bias the music in any particular way, making no kind of production on any track consistently unpleasant or otherwise resulting in a fatiguing listening experience in time. I technically have and found these headphones: the Fischer Audio Fa-003 Ti. For $200, I'd much rather get a pair of those tbh rather than a pair of 650's. They only just require a bit of bass boost which most any FiiO amp would be sufficient in providing (they have excellent low frequency response in every other respect). I like the smoothness of the HD 600's though, even if not their overall balance (especially with extended time listening), and was hoping maybe these were somehow different to the 650's in ways people who like the original wouldn't like but I perhaps would.
Ok, firstly, I know every single version of that pair of headphones which exists. The cheapest it ever sold for, ACTUALLY plainly and simply rebranded (the Digitech ones), was $70. You can sometimes get the version with the looser headband (the NVX XPT100's) for $80 when they're on sale. The Brainwavz HM5's are the ones I'd really first start considering as I've found they're more consistent in quality and usually have (now) better pads. This is keeping in mind how unique these headphones are in having all these options. Not a single review you would see honestly comparing them from a technical standpoint to anything below $200+ headphones.
I say the Fischer Audio Fa-003 Ti's because they have reinforced drivers resulting in a smoother high frequency response, are generally made of better materials (like the arms which hold the cups which are metal and not prone to breaking), and come with hand-crafted sheepskin pads (or at least used to) and good quality pads in general. My point about bass boost had to do with balance. The HD 600's for example require a reduction in the high frequencies. That last statement you made is competely wrong and entirely circumstantial, as per the examples just given. This isn't the case with the headphones in question and doing one or the other yields competely different results in all cases but especially different headphones.
The Fischer Audio Fa-003 Ti's are not outclassed in every way by the Sennheiser 6XX series headphones and they otherwise have a better balance. I have all versions of the Sennheisers and they still hang on the headphone rack with these Yoga CD880's (which you rightly refer to them as) comfortably sit on my ears daily for all different uses.
To compare in terms of price like that is idiotic. Next time, make straw men and blow shit out your ass in another direction. If you actually had anything at all to offer from a knowledge standpoint, that is not at all how someone would've come at this.
Good argument by the way. Ad hominem, which you feel is good enough in the presence of other idiots. Any actual point you want to present which addresses anything?
Try to engage the critical half of your brain for a moment that humans are so gifted with (that and art being the only thing which sets us apart) instead of the monkey half. Not such a big deal to actually learn a bit more rather than assume a final view/position which needs to be preserved and defended at all costs - against any possible external influence.
Highlight a single insane/crazy thing I said and support it with an argument, that is, if you want to waste more time.