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
- The nozzles turned out to be maybe even 1mm larger than Westone and Shure nozzles, which is too bad. - They sound muddier than the Westone 4R using the included Comply tips. - They sound and seal better with tri-flange tips, but they don't ship with them. - The microphone is positioned poorly, it falls somewhere in the middle of my belly. It should really be positioned where it is with iPhone headphone cables, on the right headphone's cable. - EQ adding another 20db to the 10khz-20khz range significantly reduces the muddiness of the sound. This is consistent with their frequency response (https://www.innerfidelity.com/images/NuForcePrimo8.pdf) and compared to the Westone 4R (https://www.innerfidelity.com/images/Westone4R.pdf). With respect to my personal preferences, my hearing is pretty consistently good and I'm a classically trained musician. - You get less telephoning with braided cables than the one it ships with.
With EQ, they sound as good as the 4-armature Westones. That's a big achievement! I got my W4 used for $180 in 2013, so this is a pretty great deal in that respect.
To put something more concrete to a description of the detail: - EQ greatly improves the rendering of noisey/glitchy music and church & chamber reverb. It's super clear. - For noisey artists like Sleigh Bells, Anamanaguchi and Marnie Stern, all the harmonic interference and heterodyne comes in great. - Contraltos and mezzo-sopranos don't sound as good as they do on the Westones. This would be the vast majority of the female voices in Indie music I listen to. It's just a little clipped and muddy. - Baritones in the contemporary music sound a little muddy too. - High voices come through less muddily generally. - EQ improves the quality of voices overall.
This is consistent with the Westone 4, but exceeds the $100 Shure E3C lineage of IEMs.
The detachable cable will be handy and I'm glad this uses the contemporary MCMX standard.
The copy on Amazon indicates these are Knowles drivers (i.e. use the Knowles patents). I wonder who manufactures these.
- Jyri/NuForce
Kinda Crazy how everyone hears things Completely different from each other!
Overall they're really good sounding IEM's IMO, and if I didn't need my car worked on ASAP, I'd definitely be keeping them!
But for now my Westone UM Pro 30's and Nuforce EDC IEM's will do me just fine and I'm content with the both of those for right now!😎👍🎧
Can you confirm that Jyri?
So they might be a little bit tight fit at first, but like I said, my Comply tips fit the both of them great IMO!
It sounds better with EQ that boosts the treble, which looks like https://www.dropbox.com/s/rg8kbckm5pre9kf/Screenshot%202018-03-30%2018.43.24.png?dl=0 . High notes on the GDA strings come out better, like I hear the timbre better. The reverb sounds better, and that does a lot for how these recordings are done (on stages, not anechoic chambers). Otherwise I wouldn't say it's that much of a difference.
I'm pretty sure classical recordings are already mixed to help high strings a bit better, so it's really tough to say without listening to a ton of recordings. Older recordings (I'm thinking Heifetz) sound like old recordings.
If I pump the volume up to 50% of the MacBook's output (a reported "-12 db"), which is quite loud on these headphones, the difference between treble-boosted and flat is less noticeable. When it's very loud, it's all a little tough to listen to, so it's hard to say.
This is straight out of the MacBook Pro 2016's audio output, I don't use a headphone amp or anything like that.
On this machine I don't have any FLAC audio to test. I'll try it later.
Regarding comparisons to other headphones I’m most familiar with the Westone 4 and it’s a little less flat sounding. It also costs a lot more. A $30 pair of Sony amplified headphones sound better than both. It’s not a really fair comparison, if you want to use over ear headphones they will almost all sound better than the Primo8 or indeed any IEM.