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
It's a hyped-up, hipster word that caters to your warm, analogue emotions. Pick up any new set of headphones you've never listened to. It sounds weird because you're new to it. Your ears get used to it. That's it.
There is a real physical material that is vibrating to create the compression waves that your ears interpret as sound. That material's properties will change as it moves repeatedly and adapts to a its stimulus.
1 Pick up a clean new sheet of paper. 2 Crumple that paper into a ball. 3 flatten it back out. Is the paper the same as it was before you started the process? Will it ever be the same again? The materials your speaker is made of will also change and not revert. That's burn in.
See page one where someone linked a study published on innerfidelity. There's your "science-based" data.
Physical changes in the material properties of a mechanical system is something completely different than the ability of different conductors to conduct. Those of us who actually understand the "science-based" aspects of audio reproduction can easily discern between the value a double blind test on "audiophiles" and real empirical measurement though. I've never seen a measurement on the monster cable vs. a coat hanger (I've never seen a copper hanger btw. sounds cool.) but I'll never call a test that relies on a person's perception/interpretation of something as a data point scientific. If 9/10 people can't tell the difference, but #10 can and thinks the difference is worth the high priced cable, what's wrong with #10 buying said cable?
In the end it's your perception of something that you must live with though. If you can't hear a difference between a burned in speaker, there's nothing wrong with that, but don't need to get on here talking trash (something about hipsters and emotions) about those who can. A lot of people can't tell the difference between 44.1kHz/16bit files and 96kHz/24-bit lossless files either, but I can and prefer the latter. Or even the highly compressed crap coming from some cut rate online streaming service or youtube for that matter. There's nothing wrong with that either. It just is.
Do what works best for you and leave other people to figure out what works best for them without passing judgement about their choices.