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'm using PEACE to equalize but it's not helping at all to get to a sound signature I'm happy with. I like everything about this headphone except for the highs.
Blindly grabbing one and knowing which it is just seems way too obvious to just be a placebo effect. The only possibility is if one pair, and it just happened to be the "burned-in" pair, for some reason was manufactured differently from the rest.
Even though if it is placebo effect, if the subject feel that there is an improvement after burnin, who are we to tell them that it is no true. We did/can not hear what the person heard.
Lastly, it is not inconceivable that for a sound transducer like a diaphragm made of certain material could settle a little after a lot of mechanical stresses even though the change may be very small.
Breaking or burning the HE-350s in can help to slightly reduce the highs but it will not cure the highs. The only solution is to equalize and make physical modifications to the headphones to reduce the highs. There's no need to use pink noise, white noise, etc... to burn them in. Just listen to your favorite music and let your headphones break in that way.
Headphone break-in/burn-in has already been referenced several times:
https://www.wired.com/2013/11/tnhyui-earphone-burn-in/ http://www.tested.com/tech/accessories/459117-science-and-myth-burning-headphones/ http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/evidence-headphone-break#0wfPZbWltdcJX4he.97