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
As someone who works in manufacturing (including in the aerospace industry) it's really irritating when I hear companies tout their use of "aircraft-grade aluminum". That's a nonsensical measure of quality... it's like saying "house-grade wood" or "Building-grade steel". They're likely referring to 6061 grade aluminum, which is used not only in aerospace but basically everywhere, it's not an exotic metal, it's not some super aluminum made with unicorn tears, it's more because of it's easy to work with in various manufacturing processes, has corrosion resistance, and has good structural rigidity. Nothing "special" about it.
Basically, it's marketing mumbo-jumbo and it irritates me. You can most certainly get poor quality "aircraft-grade aluminum" (6061... as we established earlier), just like you can get poor quality "housing building-grade lumber"... why not give some actual useful information instead? Like "high strength, corrosion resistant, 6061 aluminum" you can add more descriptors like "heat treated". Hell it has a failure point of 40,000psi... that sounds neat too toss that in. But stop using the fact that it's also on airplanes (and the back of my phone, the chair I'm sitting in, the PC case next to me, the monitor bezel I'm looking at... this is just stuff I can see in the room I'm currently in).
Alright, I'll jump down from my soapbox and leave my rant there. Oh, and I just might buy a pair of these... I've been looking for new earbuds :)
EDIT: A coworker just reminded me that for some structural parts that flex on aircraft they use 7075 aluminum... which can be a serious pain to machine or work with (but offers good flexibility and tensile strength). If they're using 7075 for these earbuds... that's really dumb, they're making the manufacturing needlessly harder, so my point stands.