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 far as infrastructure cost - that $40 million in Series B funding should have bought some pretty scalable functionality.
One problem with applying the idea of purchase-history-based deference to this drop is that people with 6XXs on their transaction lists were promised headphones from the jump. The presence of that item on their list is a tacit promise to them. Most people in that category -- and there are nearly 5,000 -- will get twice as mad if you take their headphones away as the people who never got to buy them at all. If you give them to people on a reconstructed chronological server list instead, you can forget those I'm-never-coming-back posts -- these will become people whom you *hope* will never come back.
Never mind how much work that chronological list would entail -- not the one involving swapping serial numbers (which also sounds nightmarish to implement), but your imaginary list of people who hit the purchase button first and would buy the 6XXs that are on other people's lists. Carrying out that plan would leave the original purchase list barren, causing animosity that dwarfs even the responses of the frustrated people who were unable to buy headphones on this drop. These are people who have been official owners for days, often *in addition* to having to deal with the same server hell that you did.
Also: If you determined ultimate 6XX purchases according to the length of long-term membership and the price and number of purchases in members' histories, you would be introducing variables that were never part of this drop -- variables that would *disqualify members who never would have wasted a moment on this drop if they had known*. Again: massive numbers of people would be incensed; they would be far angrier than anyone here has been so far.
MD probably wants to make the largest number of people happy that it can without permanently alienating members, risking bad press or making stalker-serious enemies. They aren't going to do that by disqualifying new members or taking 6XXs from people who have bought them already and giving them to people on a different kind of list.
And then there's this: ***7,000 people hit the purchase button during the first moment of the drop***. Why are some people certain that they automatically will be included on a purchasing list determined by order of server activity? Even if a person did hit the button in that split second, she might well be user 5,001, and odds are her reflexes or her connection weren't as perfect as she might think.
However you look at it, the allocation was arbitrary to begin with and the reassignment of allocated headphones is going to be arbitrary in effect even if it somehow isn't in execution (which I doubt is truly possible, given the variables involved). You'd be piling more disappointment on top of disappointment.
Using a new list from servers to allocate duplicate headphone purchases isn't going to hurt anyone and that should be done if it isn't insane to implement. It appears that MD is implementing that solution for duplicates already.
That growth has also been organic, said El-Hage [edit: CEO and co-founder of Massdrop], who noted that up until now, Massdrop has not paid to market its site or its products online. On the contrary, the company initially paid to have its listings rank lower in Google's GOOGL -0.97% pagerank algorithms so that they wouldn’t come up in web searches. That was to maximize the forum-like feel of the site and bring together actual enthusiasts instead of attracting one-time buyers looking for the cheapest possible deal on any given item.
What resonates with me is the statement "bring together actual enthusiasts instead of attracting one-time buyers looking for the cheapest possible deal on any given item. ". It seems to me that on this particular drop they failed in this mission, and in a rather spectacular fashion.
If this site is just going to be a "deal" site, then they are going to lose the "secret sauce" that differentiates them from any of the other deal sites out there.
Cudos for finding the quote btw.