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 think it's worth pointing out that Focal seems to be having trouble manufacturing the drivers. Jude's measurements look nothing like the SoundStage!Solo measurements. My first copy of the Elegia was defective, and another Massdrop user's copy also seems to be broken. Personally, I would only buy an Elegia from a local store where you could take it back and exchange if it turns out to be defective.
I need to do some more research of other measurements to try and get a better baseline but even comparing to Tyll's measurements of the Clear, his results match much more closely to my ears than what was measured above. Same on SBAF, HeadFi, DIYaudioheaven, etc. These measurements just look like the odd man out.
Regardless, there is still the issue of Jude's Elegia-Clear comparison, since both you and I and pretty much anyone that's heard an Elegia and Clear agree that the Elegia has less bass (and yes, I have both the Elegia and Clear right here and have been comparing the them back-to-back since I got the Elegia last week), which is very obviously not the case in Jude's measurement. At least Brent's measurement has the relative amount of bass correct.
As an aside, I get that Butterworth's measurements don't have the typical 10-15dB rise to the 3kHz peak, but that is consistent throughout all of his measurements. So yes, there is something odd about it, but since everyone's measurement rigs behave differently anyway, I pretty much never compare measurements from different people; only ever between a known headphone and an unknown headphone from the same person, otherwise there are too many variables. (And even then I can get into trouble when I have a bum copy *cough*Aeon*cough*.)
And honestly, I had a less than ideal time with the AFC as well. I couldn't wrap my head around the hype as they came off as bass light, very lean, and cold overall but had great resolution. Ultimately, I found them way too analytical for my taste and returned them. Dan says the CX has more heft as this was my direct question to him. However, he later states the CX still has less bass quantity than the C Flow--which isn't bass heavy to begin with so that has me raising an eyebrow. With the Elegia, I feel they lack any substantial sub bass impact and that makes them not have a lot of heft. Pretty much, I won't use them with Hip Hop. Just like the Elex, thankfully, the bass is of good quality although I always want more impact. I really think that's just part of Focals house sound as their speakers tend to lean the same way.