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
I was completely underwhelmed. Maybe it was the source audio, but on day 1 of CES (i.e. I don't think it was due to the headphones being blown from extended high-volume play) 2 or 3 different tracks played from their devices (straight out of iPad Air 2s) had significant distortion in female vocals and bassier bits, even at moderate (75%) volume. That was across two different pairs of headphones in all modes (Bassy, ANC, and passive).
The construction of the headphones was OK at best. Metal and leather - yes, but it just felt cheap in my hands, and the 'detail' (logo, faux-industrial brackets on the cups) was all plastic as far as I could tell.
Audio quality (when not crackling/distorting) was nothing to write home about, which makes the selling point of these purely aesthetics - and I really cannot stand the aesthetic they went with. To me, these are in the category of low-to-mid end cans that you shouldn't spend more than $50-$75 on based on my experience with them.
A $150 pair of Grados would blow these out of the water. $299 is purely a price set so that people will compare them to Beats, and is NOT an indication of quality. The guy chatting with me focused on "style and appearance" as the selling points, rather than "quality of audio and durability."
TL;DR - I really didn't like them and wouldn't buy a pair at any price.
Again: emphasizing that their target market is NOT people interested in the best possible audio quality, but the people who want to look cool while wearing headphones in public.
I didn't get the chance to play with anything in Wireless mode, and I avoid wireless headphones as much as I can so I would have zero point of comparison on that point.