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
Ultimately, our goal with this project was to make a gaming headset with performance suited to competitive play, with comfort and aesthetics that make for an enjoyably casual experience, and a price point that makes it as accessible as possible. How do you think we did?
Well, that blows.. I had just picked up PC363D's off Amazon a few months ago for +$200..
What I can say, is they use the same architecture for the voice coil and magnet structure. If you were to take this and the HD600 driver out of the housing and put them side by side on a table, you'd notice some different acoustic treatment on the front of the driver HD600 driver (looks like silver mesh), but the HD600 driver is also positioned flatly in the housing vs the PC37X drivers are positioned at an angle.
That's a huge plus for me; that thing will get caught on just about anything, and is usually the first thing to start breaking.
"Modern games have headphone optimization built in, so we’ve removed the PC 373D's simulated 7.1 surround, leaving headphone optimization to the game creators rather than layering effects on top of their work."
Another question: I didn't own a PC back in the days of OpenAL and 3D surround. I got into audio mostly for surround on consoles, which was all based on emulating a 2D home theater surround setup on headphones. What PC games have you found to have good/great headphone surround, especially with height/3D surround? The Surround experience is so much more immersive for me, and the cheap dongles included with many headsets left much to be desired so I'm curious what a good built-in headphone surround game would be!
I believe the most recent version of the 598 features angled drivers, I'm not sure about the tuning but we're working on a few comparisons now as many folks have asked.
If you're looking for games with good headphone optimization, I'd recommend CS:GO, BF4/BFONE/Battlefront (DICE is killing it on the HRTF front), and racing games by Codemasters (DiRT, F1 Race Stars).
That said, if you're also interested in games that sound good (no optimization, just good recording and sound track), check out Transistor, Bioshock, and Owl Boy.
And yes, the DICE games since BF3 have had pretty good built-in headphone surround, so did "The Last Of Us," "Thief" (the reboot), Overwatch (Dolby Atmos!). BioShock and Borderlands 2 also were some of the last to support OpenAL, a fully 3D surround "library" that freely positions audio without being constrained to the "7.1 speaker" positions of a home theater. I don't think full headphone surround integration is common yet... but it's definitely gaining momentum, for the better!!
Would you be interested in joining me for a Twitch Stream of some PS4 + PC37X gameplay, answer the burning questions of gamers live?
my Twitch profile is also EvShrug. How about an hour of CoD: Ghosts (great sound cues), then an hour of Rocket League... and we'll see what whims will us where after that, eh?
Sorry the stream stopped every time I switched a game, and I didn't realize Rocket League had an update. But, overall I think it was a fun night!
If not, customer service is where companies really test their mettle. Here's the USA repairs page: https://service.sennheiserusa.com