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
Kinda on the ropes on these headphones because of the QC issues I'm seeing and yeah I'm from Asia so RMAs would be definitely a pita.
For those who got these from 3 or 4 drops ago. How is it holding up?
I dunno, I don't think people are as careful as they claim to be. I have the Pinnacle PX and nay a chip on those either and I've had those for about 7+ months as well. Same with the Nuforce EDC/3. Not saying that some of the issues posted aren't legitimate, I just highly suspect that some damage could be from people dropping them, throwing them around a bit, or being a bit careless in general compared to how many others treat their other sets or IEMs.
Haven't decided yet but I don't think I'll risk wasting more time on a second pair that ends up breaking within a week or a year or whenever. Would rather spend my money on headphones with build quality I can be confident in.
I generally agree with @jaydunndiddit about people being less careful with their headphones than they may claim, and I admit I am more careless with things I've owned for a long time. But I treat brand new products especially carefully; this pair went from their box, then back and forth from my head and onto this foam block several times over the course of a week. That's it.
Had the left channel cut out intermittently sometimes when I would move my head hard to the left or right. Some adventurous modder had to resolder the wiring in one cup when he was fiddling with the insides. Said the soldering appeared kinda cheaply fragiley done, that it didn't take very much for it to break. So maybe (again, just best guess) the wiring was going in and out on one side like when a lamp light keeps flickering because of an intermittent connection? To be clear it's not done this for months, but I figured it deserved a mention.
They would make like a clicky electronic "crunch" now and than that freaked me the heck out. The best guess I could wrangle as to what was going on comes from this dude:
https://imgur.com/gallery/ZXc05
"When you have the headphones on your head, the pads create a seal against your face and inside the cups/pads remains air which, when you move your head fast or pressing the headphones against your head, have nowhere to go except out through the membrane. This air pressing against the membrane makes it move out and come in contact with the magnets (which in most cases is alright, in fact, it's mostly fine on the left side drivers on my headphones). But on my set of HE4XX's the membrane gets stuck against the magnets for a fraction of a second, as if it was a little bit sticky, and when it flexes back away from the magnets it creates a crackling sound."
He solved it by interrupting the seal of the earpads with sticky furniture pads like for the feet of fold up chairs I guess? All I know is eventually it went away and haven't had a problem for months. I installed some ZMF Ori leather pads and took of the grill a la the "grill mod", maybe that had something to do with it?
Just as an aside, I wanted to loosen the "vertical" flathead screws that connect the metal gimbals to the metal of the headband so the gimbals would move more freely. They were REALLY tight, like I was scraping up metal flakes and fearing I would break them or something. For a while I wondered if they were even designed to move at all! Long story short, I removed unscrewed the earcups completely so I could get to the gimbal and FINALLY got it. Stupidly stubborn. They move more freely now though :)!