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 price here was really good....my goal is to get a decent set of headphones from most of the major soundhouses out there and decide who i personally like the best then go all in and invest in some of their top tier stuff....
would you say these headphones are an accurate representation of what i can expect from Sennheiser in general? i understand each model and even from set to set can have their own sound, but i am wondering if generally speaking this is a good place to start with Sennheiser or should i have just gone straight to the 600 series for that?
Hopefully you find this helpful. Good luck in whatever you decide and welcome to the world of audiophiles! Once you're here there's no going back.
Seriously though, thanks, you killed it,that was super helpful.
Only thing was the amp suggestion, I picked up the e10k to power my k702s and it failed horribly, lol, I ordered both at the same time not knowing what I was doing, listened to it barely eek out some sound for like a week till I got fed up and plugged it into my laptop and holy cow did they perk up and come alive, lol... so now I'm in a place where I'm kinda scared to buy any amp on the cheaper side of the spectrum because if it's not better than my laptop then why bother.... apparently I have some Texas instruments burr brown amp inside and it looks like it can handle around 300 ohms... you got a suggestion of a good amp that'll outshine the laptop...it apparently has a couple dacs in it as well a saber 9018..i think and another chip I forget the number of...
Like I said, I need a decent stack as well, so I'm open to suggestions...i want to be able to grow into it and really only want to have to get something else because I'm being a snob or bored, not because it won't work with x,y,z ...
Again thank you so so much for your help, time and effort is valuable thanks for giving me some. Extremely greatful
As far as your troubles with the FiiO e10k I can’t really help you with that one other than maybe the possibility that you had a faulty one. It’s supposed to be able to support 16 to 150 ohms as far as the drive so In theory it should’ve been more than enough to drive your K702’s at 62 ohms. I personally use mine plugged directly into my laptop (nothing special) and listen to my X2’s and HD 595’s and HD 598’s and it sounds phenomenal. As far as other options though I’ll have to look at my list I’ve got if I can find it here.
Now looking into for a decent stack, one which would also drive the HD 600 if in the future you do decided to go that route it would also drive would be the Magni, Modi combo which would work very well for any of the cans you have mentioned.
I also wanted to mention that when you go into a pair of Sennheiser’s coming from the AKG’s, come with and open mind. They have a different sound altogether, kind of more what some people say dark but have a pretty decent soundstage and are more upfront than many in the midrange. Sennheiser seems to like you to really hear them vocals but they are never overpowerin. That is one thing I have never found in my Sennheiser cans even at higher volumes is any level of sibilance. They’re are always enjoying for hours on end.
Hope this helps. I’ll try my best to help if you’ve got any more questions.
On the other hand, you don't need an amp to drive these 579s. They're like 50ohm, 105db sensitivity. Really easy to drive. Unless you have a lousy source, where you get more benefit from the DAC side of the equation (entry kindle fire is the only one I can personally attest to), you're better off spending that money on your exploration of different headphone sounds.
To each his own, of course, but every time I get the itch to start messing around with more DACs & amps, I read this post from NwAvGuy (the dude that designed the O2 Amp):
http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/gain-and-headphone-ampsdacs.html
Keeps me focused on buying headphones with minimal differences instead ;)