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
Eventually this led me to custom tips. Etymotic had a program where they'd subsidize the cost of having custom tips made - download a form, get your ear impressions, send them off to the mold place with the form and get a discount. (They don't do that any more.) Having custom tips was WOW. I got spectacular isolation, with comfort that ran to 5-6 hours. (Never really tried more than that...) Even nicer, it made the Ety sound better, because of the flawless isolation and because they go much deeper in the ear canal.
You can still get custom tips made for Etys. Probably $60 for getting impressions done, depending on where you live. (I live in an expensive area so I had mine done when visiting a friend in a less expensive place.) The custom tips were $150. The custom tips for Etys will work on a fair number of their IEMs, but not all. Still, it's not like if your earphones die, you got nothing.
That got me into the world of pricey custom IEMs, but since I traveled 4-5 days a week, sometimes on 22 hour flights, I treated it as an indulgent treat for enduring too much travel. If CIEMs die, you've got near nothing. Massdrop does great deals on CIEMs from time to time, but really, even with a sale it's not cheap. But, if you're in a job where you need to wear strong ear protection, and you like listening to music (like flying to Singapore each month) worth considering.
ACS Custom does tips for many more than Etys now. Poke around on their site. A few IEM companies now also will offer ways to get custom tips.
I still have and love some non-custom IEMs, because often I know I'll be listening for a limited time - gym workout, mowing the lawn. I have two different MEE and love one of them, like the other a lot. If I could get custom tips... I'd click to buy within 30 seconds of Massdrop posting the offer.
After quite a few pairs of different IEMs I'm pretty convinced my ear canals are more oval than the perfect circles IEM tips seem aimed at. For this reason I recently ordered the Ety kids as a last desperate attempt to find IEMs which don't slip out every minute or so. I figured if Etys don't fit then nothing will, hence why I went for the cheapest model. If they do I might be looking at the HF5 or ER4 in the future... If not then either good riddance IEMs or I'll be tempted into the path you took.
I've had Etys for more years than I can remember. Had several generations of ER4, beginning with the first one. For whatever reason, my ER4 got stolen again and again. The HF5, IMHO, are as good to listen to (understanding that I"m not talking about isolation listening rooms, but airplanes) as the ER4 of any model. And any tips you have made for any of the Ety balanced armature IEMs will work with ALL of their balanced armature IEMs. And, I'd own only one set of CIEMs other than my family pooled money to buy me some set or another of two others.
My wife has such small ear canals that none of the standard tips fit. I sprang for a set of tips for Etys and now she never hears me when I talk with her. And we're going to leave that right there.