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
In my mind though, I would argue the 4XX is the best of the group since it resolves some durability issues from the original design without having the shortcomings of the new headband design (I'm looking at you, plastic yokes!), but benefitting from a newer driver that could be the same or at least similar to the one in the 400i. I kind of like the older more classic style though I would have considered getting a 400i due to aggressive pricing on Amazon if HIFIMAN had made the thing with metal yokes.
There is a YouTube video that compares all four version of the 400 series . According to that reviewer, the sonic signature in terms of treble/mid/bass performance, detail, and soundstage is somewhere between the 400i and 400s; that is to say it has some sonic characteristics similar to one or the other and NOT meant to imply that overall sound quality indicates an overall good-better-best ranking between the 3 newer models (400s, 4XX, 400i).