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
Also, K7XX or 6XX? I love the looks of the first but I've had only good experiences with Sennheiser.
recommendations in price ascending are emu purple hearts (on here 80$), shure 215 (arguably the best starter iem runs about 100$ but Ive seen them down to 60 on sale), Massdrops Noble X is a good set in the 250$ range or you can get the wizard tuned ones for a bit more (he’s a beast so I’d definitely recommend springing the extra cash) and finally the Sennheiser momentum is a nice midrange set of overheads. (Make sure you get the newest generation as I know they frequently improve on this set.
Sourcing is another interesting topic. If going from your phone I can say the audio quest dragonfly is the most convenient and provides a noticeable improvement over most any onboard DAC. That being said if you’re on anything but iphone I vastly preferred the Dacport from centrance. Much wider stage and richer sound, but I could never get it to work on my idevice.
This mostly covers the lower-middle range as this rabbit hole goes really really deep. (I’m waiting on a set of 900$ IEMs from massdrop - looking at you @bradr ) so if you have any questions feel free to reach out.
Thanks for the headphone recommendations, I'll look into the ones I don't know yet. I've had a wayyy better experience with Sennheiser 461Gs than the Momentums. The earpads are really stiff but it didn't bother me much once I got used to it.
I can't imagine spending $900 on an audio set up yet. All that money being taken away from keyboards!
If you ever save up enough, I’d recommend the PM-3s (Oppo is going to discontinue it soon though) or the new P7 wireless (not the wired originally p7, the new wireless p7 has better sound revisions).