broke my 200 dollar headphones

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Ry Pikachu

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i was studying and decided to listen to some music.

i plugged my HD500 sennheiser head set into the receiver in my room.

sharks shot out from the jack and i quickly pulled it out.

later i tried again and it worked (minus the sparks).

while listening i noticed that the right side was cutting out a little, after a half hour it was 50/50 working. this morning when i shake it the right side raddles, and now as of 2pm today; right side doesnt work. FUCK:mad:

i have a 2 year factory warranty, ive used it once before to fix the cable but now upon first search i can't find the receipt.

its been 13 months, but i guess the time has come for the little guy to retire.
 
RIP, those are some decent cans. :(

I don't think he replacement cables are that much, you can probably just buy a new pair for a fair price.

Oh man, that would be a good Photoshop if I had more time right now.
 
headphones are speakers/monitors, if you use them a lot or use them professionally then $200 is totally justified.. you get what you pay for and in an audiophile hi-fi system that might cost $1000s why would you want to listen through something that can't reproduce all the frequencies?
some people take music very seriously.
also, generally with higher end headphones they are better insulated, meaning you don't hear your wife watching tv and vice versa.. it can be a marriage saver. :thumbsup:
 
If you value sound quality, then $200 isn't much at all.Only with closed circumaural cans, but the best sound quality comes from open cans.
 
update;

i've found the reciept. i packed up the headphones and i'm going to send it into sennheiser. i just hope that this is a legit reason for repair. i mean, i didn't do anything i wasn't suppose to, i just plugged it in and got a power surge.

to answer you're question slash. i spend about 3-5 hours on my computer everyday, if i am working then i am almost always listening to music and when im playing im ussually listening to the sounds. when one spends so much time, isn't it worth it to get equipment which is decent? i think it is, and these headphones have lasted 14 months now. i want to get atleast 24 months out of them.

these headphones are a cheap alternative good audio quality.
 
Nobody asked you to understand. :happysad:

And $200 is pretty cheap for headphones, most people are just use to the crappiest, cheapest pieces of shit on the market.
 
i've never had open headphones, no good for DJing.. i agree they have better sound but they are not right for the job. not when you're playing out anyway.
 
Yeah, I hear you. I own closed Sennheisers for DJing (HD 212 Pro and EH 250s) and a pair of open HD 650s and Grado RS2s (the one with the mahogany earpieces) for casual listening and some production work.

As far as quality goes, I can't stand listening to music on shitty headphones, it sounds so tinny and washed out. I'd much rather spend a few hundred on a nice pair of audiophile quality cans, that have lifetime warranties, and never spend another dollar on headphones again. Also, vinyl + nice receiver and amp + good cans = an awesome sound that most people will sadly never experience.
 
Jung.
one thing i have to add, and with about 50/50 skeptism, is that headphones may add to premature hearing loss. i am a little bit hearing impaired which is understandable after 25 years of clubs gigs and parties.. but today in the british press pete townsend has come out saying it wasn't the volume of The Who's shows that deafened him but rather the headphones in the studio, he's lamenting the fact that in the iPod/download generation many people are only listening through headphones and thus will damage their hearing.
i'm not sure, i'm really not sure.. if headphones had damaged my hearing more than motorhead gigs did then surely i would only be damaged in my left (DJ) ear..
 
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