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
In both cases full sized headphones are more preferable in my opinion.
They are just earbuds after all, and they got their limits no matter how good their build quality is. You can't achieve same soundstage and sound with them as you would with headphones, even IEMs. So what's the point of using them with dac+amp if you won't hear any difference?
I'm sure they won't sound as good as most IEMs but some people, me, can't comfortably wear IEMs and have them stay in :[.
But in the end I decided much higher impedance (making them highly impractical) outweighs extra sound quality (and it's quite debatable anyway). I couldn't find any proper tests that clearly state that PK1 has better sound than PK2. To be fair - I highly doubt that it's the case, and sound difference should be pretty much insignificant for most people in casual circumstances.
PK2 as good as it gets in terms of earbuds in my opinion. I've tried dozens of earbuds - brands and Chinese no-name stuff - all of them sounding like a tin can. BUT the thing I don't really enjoy - I hear hissing when I use them with Sansa Clip (Rockbox). That's quite annoying, but mostly curable by ramping up volume a little bit and turning display off (CPU noise I guess).
I guess I can see why you might not want to recommend it to a beginner, though.