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
I would imagine that the thinner conductor would have a higher impedance (doubtful silver vs copper would make up the difference) but you would have to measure it - I don't know if the K10 is even as affected as much as some BA's (e.g. Andromeda or Primo 8) by impedance (I will have to try when I finally get mine...)
Edit 2 (fixed this original edit's mistakes): It looks like the K10 has an almost flat phase to its impedance (https://clarityfidelity.blogspot.com/2016/08/noble-audio-kaiser-10-universal-new-ver.html) but the magnitude decreases significantly until 200 Hz - so I assume this would mean more bass with higher impedance (though presumably not much effect with the impedance delta from a cable swap)
Default: ~1.9 ohm Gold x Silver: ~0.4 ohm
This does seem like a relatively significant difference when the impedance of the IEM itself can dip pretty low (per the link above). I am going to have to do more A/B comparison to see if I can hear any significant difference (but the connectors are still too tight to keep switching them...)
Edit: To be clear, I was never referring to trying to measure the IEM' impedance.