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
Edit2: yes, the hd6xx and th610 use the same connectors (also hd600/hd650 and th900mk2), so this cable should work for any of those headphones.
https://www.head-fi.org/f/threads/new-fostex-th610-premium-reference-closed-back-headphones.798127/page-14
(I have tried a few different cables, all of which terminate into an unbalanced 1/4" jack and they makes the phones sound terrible so maybe it wouldn't make a difference if the connection was balanced I don't know for sure)
Inverted polarity sounds kind of strange as the phones are now moving sound waves reversed into the phone cups then reflect to your ears (<-Sound->) instead of directly into your ears (->Sound<-). In my experience it really kills the power you get out of your phone as the sound has to fight back through the moving driver to reflect to your ears.
I find my Th900MK II's really lack the power that they have when the polarity is correct.
This is my experience while using unbalanced cables. I have not tried using balanced cables with the polarity reversed so i am not sure if it would make a difference.
Sennheiser connector: the upper pin is slightly larger then the lower pin.
Official Fostex Connectors: the size difference is a bit more pronounced.