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
you can also go to the AKG website and there they have instructions on how to take the headphone apart.... should be pretty easy from the instructions on both sites...
I'm switching mine to balanced with Moon Audio components....
EDIT: I just realized, there *is* a way to be balanced with a 4-pin mini XLR. Im not sure if anyone does it though, it doesn't look like it from what I have seen (and it wouldn't be for headphone use anyway). You *could* use two conductors for L+ and L-, and two conductors for R+ and R-, and then you would use the cables shield itself as the ground return for both channels back to the send. Definitely not the best way at all to do this, but I just wanted to put it out there because I just realized it technically is possible to be balanced and using only a 4-pin mini XLR.
In balanced mode the amp puts out much more power and handles dynamics at the headphone much better than single ended solutions...
http://www.head-fi.org/t/483861/guide-balanced-akg-k702-with-detachable-4-pin-mini-xlr-cable