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
As a 13 year old, funding was the major issue, and Head-Fi's Buy/Sell/Trade section was my solution.
Core Point Generally, enthusiasts do a good job taking care of their stuff, and Audiophile products don't really degrade. These factors produce an environment where secondary markets thrive. Products retain value, the buyers in that market have a good understanding of value, and a large percentage of buyers have also been sellers on that market.
After realizing I could buy a used DT880 for $200, use it for a few months, then reliably sell it for $190, my whole perspective on the hobby changed. Instead of my DT880 representing a $200 cost, now it was $10, all through the magic of reliable secondary market value.
The logical conclusion is that enthusiast products (that don't incur meaningful wear through use) are assets rather than expenses. After realizing this, I stopped buying cheap things and started investing in the "asset level" version of whatever product.
Implications This works great in the sense that I've probably saved a few thousand dollars by avoiding trash quality products, but it makes new hobby exploration difficult.
I look at EDC as an example, seems like a cool community, lots of neat stuff, but I can't think of too many situations where I'd utilize a pocket knife. I did a little reading, found most people recommend getting something cheap, carrying it for a while, and upgrading/abandoning based on much use it gets.
Seems logical, but I don't want to buy a $50 thing that I'll have to toss in a couple months if I decide to upgrade, but it's hard to get over the $200 it'll take to reach the asset level knives.
I think there's cool potential for a solution to this problem, a secondary market, based on trades, geared toward swapping asset level goods of one type, for similarly valuable asset level goods of another type.
Conclusion I've got five headphones at home, all worth ~$500 on the secondary market. I don't want to invest $200 in a knife that I'm not sure I'll find useful, but what if there was some easy way for me to trade one of those ~$500 pairs of headphones for a ~$500 knife? I don't have to shell out any cash, I get to try the new hobby, and I'm trying it at the quality level I'm interested in entering at.
Anyway, these are my thoughts, but what do you think? I'm curious to know how other people see this.