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'm still not sure I was and I was hoping they would correct my poor understanding of electricity and conductivity and resistance etc etc, but in stead they kind if admitted a design floor, which they were actually marketing as the reason to but the cables! Lol
Btw, I have PS Audio balanced cables if both silver and OCC copper and both are great!
While it is a fact that it changes the impedance, there is no empirical evidence in sound improvements yielded by silver over OFC. Furthermore, headphones are designed and tested with the cables they ship with, not gold or silver wires. If anything, swapping to an ultra low or ultra high impedance cable can make sound worse before it makes it better.
Copper and Silver have different latices, different magnetic fields, different everything. Recommending a silver cable is akin to selling snake oil to cure cancer. Just because you noticed an improvement does not mean it is 1) an actual improvement and 2) the improvement will be appreciated by others.
To anyone reading this not already dead set on buying silver cables: Don't do it. Ignore the hype, and look for real measurements and A/B listening tests.
I use my X1 headphones with their 'high impedance' stock cable. The amount of work that went into the design, and everything included in the package -- it is all intentional. While the sound with lower impedance may seem better to some, it isn't to me. I can't quantify it, but the sound simply is not as intentional with a 'better cable'. It is like throwing a high flow filter on a carburated motorcycle.. it breaks the balance of the entire engine, for worse. It changes everything. The difference is that you can tune the carbs to fit the filter, you can't change the driver/coil design to benefit from the lower impedance.