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 do travel a lot and listen then for hours at a time, so hopefully I'll hear the difference at some point--but I know I'll like what I hear with the 6XXs (assuming I live long enough for them to get here).
On a more serious note, I've noticed that usually the subtle differences can be truly appreciated only during quiet listening sessions where I'm lounging upon the laps of my harem in a relaxed manner, with my eyes closed, and letting the music take me wherever it takes me... (I'm totally a Somali prince yup.)
In terms of the most obvious difference in sounds, it's probably gonna be something like this in terms of improvement/ changes:
Headphones > Amps > Dacs > Cables > other bizarre things people try to sell you for over $1000 that improves sound or just how your brain perceives the sound due to amount spent.
It's more fun to enjoy the music with the gears you're happy with, instead of always searching for the next "upgrade" that will bring you 0.1% closer to that music heaven you imagine within your mind. That's just going to cause more grief and you spend a lot less time actually listening to music as opposed to listening to reviews of music gears XD...
But yeah, interested in hearing from you in regards to that Van Damme cable, I do own a Jotunheim and bought a stock cable (modded with the 4pin XLR), would also be doing some tests on that to see if the Jot XLR port vs its SE port has any difference, or none as many others are saying online... now just gotta wait for the shipping notification for the headphones~
I notice there's currently a feeding-frenzy going on over the today's DarkVoice drop. Already 2,000 plus discussions going on, lot of talk about what new tubes to buy and how they'll sound vs stock--I don't envy them (glad I haven't heard that voice calling me yet).
If, and when my Schitt ever gets here, I'll give you a full review of the cables!