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what the f is wrong with my headphones
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#1
02-14-2010, 08:56 AM

suddenly my headphones (sennheiser 380 HD pro) started sounding terrible. they worked fine last time i used them (friday night). i can't even hear some sounds at all, like most of the windows sounds.  what sound i can hear are really weird, and the sounds i can't hear are the same sounds on both my desktop and laptop, and music sounds really weird when i tested them with my phone. i haven't mistreated them at all since friday night.

what the f is going on

also i got these in september so they're not old or anything

obviously i tried restarting, installing updated sound drivers, etc. before i decided to test the headphones on my laptop/phone



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02-14-2010, 09:04 AM

did you roll over the cable in a chair or shut the cable into a door? get too close to them with neodymium magnets or something? I can't really think of anything that would out and out ruin a nice pair of phones that quickly that wouldn't be blatantly obvious (maybe spilled mountain dew on them?). if it's messing up with multiple devices you should prob send in for repairs. or maybe ur super fantastic cardboard case managed to short something LOL (doubt it but that would be pretty funny)


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02-14-2010, 09:05 AM

Does the sound quality shift at all when you bend the cord at joints? (Like where the cord connects to the headphones or the jack?)


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#4
02-14-2010, 12:10 PM

First guess would be something wrong with the cable. Probably a short somewhere.


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02-14-2010, 01:26 PM

Check the cord on the headphones side, it may have been pulled out half-way. If it is not fully inserted, you will experience a really shitty form of noise canceling. Same could happen if your cord is damaged.

Cool thing with the Sennheiser HDs is that you can take apart the drivers and cords and check everything over with a multimeter.
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02-14-2010, 02:30 PM

Happens with my 2 sets of headphones. Problem for both is the cable.

Try applying a pressure around the jack, it's usualy where it breaks.




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02-14-2010, 05:59 PM

(02-14-2010, 01:26 PM)HeK link Wrote: Check the cord on the headphones side, it may have been pulled out half-way. If it is not fully inserted, you will experience a really shitty form of noise canceling.

This was it :-X and it's all fixed now.



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#8
02-14-2010, 08:18 PM

Sennheisers rock.


I've had a set of HD 555's forever, cat pwnd the cord one day, omg replacement cord!

and what could be better than being able to replace worn out super ultra soft ear pads?


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