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 HE-6 is a legend in the headphone world. It competed with the HD-800, LCD-3 and other reference cans, and in many people's opinion was best of the best. The discussions regarding how to get the best out of the HE-6 (being notoriously hard to amplify and with an abundance of possible modifications) go on to this day. This is despite it not being manufactured for some time. The HE-6 successor (HE-1000) has not developed anything near the cult following.
I for one would be really keen to see the HE-6 (or other high-end HiFiMAN planars) get the Massdrop treatment. If anyone agrees, let me know!