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
- Compatibility - see above. These are restricted to unbalanced output ports. Are these quality IEMs that are not meant to be connected to the best quality (in most part) audio signal output?
- Performance - I have half a dozen of iem cables which are by far better quality than those used on cardas. Even if factory ones have good electrical specs, you can't replace them with even better ones.
- Aesthetics - There's no good looking and bad looking cables and everyone has his own opinion, but it's a bad thing that you can not replace bad looking parts with ones that you like.
- Practicality - What if you are a wireless freedom fan? You can't connect your bluetooth cable to there iems.
- Durability - good or bad, taken care of or not, the cables are expendable parts and will generally fail earlier than the iems, hopefully. You can't replace these simply by buying new wires.
as for the soldering, what about the other end of the cable? should the iems be coming soldered to a particular (probably cardas) brand of DAP/AMP? definitely not! There is a number of miniature connectors designed for iem use and they proved very durable (especially 2-pin ones). So, just believe me, self-respecting iems will have removeable cables!