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
To the poster above who said that these headphones can compare with the Grado PS1000 -- the Grado must really be TERRIBLE. Besides the $20 plastic children's toy build quality, the sonic qualities of the HD668B don't bring them to the level of $300 mid-fi headphones, let alone $1,000+ hi-fi flagships. I will admit that they sound much better than $30 ought to, and I would place them in the in the upper-low end tier of headphone sound. They are somewhat competitive to my AKG K553 ($150), although the AKG beats it in resolution and dynamics. They are junk compared to the HE-400S ($300), and sound unbearably bad against the HE-6 ($1,000).
The bass is boosted and pretty awful -- either because of the boosting or just mechanical limitations, bass notes tend to sound same-ish, as if there is a bass frequency tone generator that goes off instead of a bass note. Mids are recessed, but not in a particularly unpleasing way. Highs are relaxed (again, not in an unpleasant way). It avoids the hollow metallic tinniness of the K553, but lacks a sense of dynamism as a result. Resolution is terrible, and noticeably worse than the K553, which itself is no detail revealing monster by any remote stretch of the imagination. Soundstage is barely present, ie, no different from the AKG. Imaging is very similar to the AKG again, just a notch above my iPhone ear buds (ie, some imaging vs. none).
I've never listened to the PS1000, so I can't really comment on that comparison. But is it really that awful that it compares with this $100-grade lo-fi headphone?