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
The 1more's are raved and are even on Tyll's wall if that's worth anything to you. I'm also a bit biased towards 1more and have been a fan of their works since the Xiaomi Piston 2, so there's that as well. Only con at glance is the pads - although they are technically swappable, the design of the pads themselves are very much integrated in the tuning of the headphone (hence why some air pockets exists around the cup). Fantastic, but just a bit too power hungry, but I doubt you wouldn't bring a portable dac/amp when you're this invested already. Comfort could be better (on-ear, lot of headband pressure). Sound is pretty damn good. Detachable LR 2.5mm cables and collapsible. Considering it's 2 misses on your list, I'd move on to the Takstars:
The Pro 82 I love for being so light, so good (bass port gimmicks either off or middle depending on your genre/mood), and very comfortable. A glance at the design you'll see it's a rip of the Sony MDR1A, which one can assume that they were probably manufactured/sourced by Takstar to begin with. Best general review I can give them is that they are a half-priced, tamer MDR1A. This headphone has a cult following on Head-Fi, where one poster in particular makes comparisons to the Fostex TH-900 due to the Takstar's strong scaling. Detachable 2.5mm. Pads aren't user-changable but still can be done.
I know price isn't a factor but in terms of closed back performance, these haven't disappointed me. FWIW my brother tossed me back his ATH-M50 after receiving a Pro 82 as a gift.