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 guess what I'm saying is don't read to much into the hype reviews & fan boy praise. If you expect more than they deliver you wont get it.
The build quality is good, the price is acceptable for what they do & don't do. 3 out of 5 stars is pretty accurate when you have experiance with a lot of headphones & there price ranges. Maybe 4 out of 5 if you are new or less experienced, but no way these are 5 out of 5, not even close!
But today i'm day 6 into my 7 day re-test before i do my HD6 series review & I tried the HD6XX with my HD660s Cable on The Element Dac/Amp because i was being lazy swapping, Turns out the HD6XX it sounds quite different yet very similar. It still has a fairly Generic sound with highlighted mids & easy to hear bass but that overall sounds improved noticeably, the imaging is much much better theres more sounds getting imaged in the soundstage put at distance or static spots out of no where e.t.c., Soundstage is still small but larger than it was before (might be a depth persecption due to the imaging & the soundstage is the same.. Hard to say right now) & it no longer "cut in & out" with dull sounds in the imaging like it did with the stock cable, they are now full sounding sounds! The highs are there now, were kinda missing on the stock cable. They can be almost harsh which is familar to my ears from the sennheiser HD600 so i know they are working right now. The Music is full & warm, almost lively. The female focals are not AS intimate now & the male vocals are not AS shouty its more balanced (important to note they still can be intimate/shouty depending on the song its just not every song like it was before). It now really does pretty much sit inbetween the HD600 & HD660s. Before with the stock cable it didnt! It sat with my old Corsair gaming headset in terms of sound with only very small differences e.g. it had "Some" imaging & the corsair didnt. The HD6XX seems to love my lower quality music (192~320kb) more than the HQ versions for congested songs. Which i found suprising because the HD600 is the opposite & the HD660s doesnt care, it does it all no issues.
Now the cable that came with the HD6XX is clearly the same cable as the 660s but the HD6XX ends in 3.5mm with 6.3mm adaptor & the HD660s cable is just 6.3mm ending so in theory should be the same & same sound regardless of cable. But its not.... its really not! I just tried the HD6XX cable on the HD660s... lol yeah theres something wrong there!!! So either I have a godly 660s cable or theres an issue with the HD6XX cable or Adaptor.
So now with the cable change I'd give it a 4.5 stars out of 5 so that would show 5/5. But i'm keeping my original review up because thats using what i was sent from massdrop.