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
A lot of articles reference this: https://www.innerfidelity.com/content/testing-audibility-break-effects
My beef with Tyll's test is that he didn't control for unit-to-unit variance. The fact that driver matching is a real thing suggests to me that there ought to be audible unit-to-unit variance, which must be controlled for. Unfortunately, this is really hard to do, so you can pretty much safely believe whatever you want to. Regardless, whatever effects may exist are likely to be extremely small, unless something has broken.
That said, burning in your headphones is easy. All you have to do is listen to whatever music you want to on those headphones.