Missing channel

Panic

Fixed my headphones. I know! It seems so lame to care about that but I swear, wearing the same pair for ten years almost daily creates a habit to the most precise organ the human body possesses: ears.

This is a Sennheiser HD200, a 60-80 bucks at the time “DJ” headphones. The thing is lightweight, has a great FLAT frequency response and protects from outside noises. It’s perfect to monitor my work. they’re also very easy to disassemble.

By the way, a flat frequency response should be what you search for when you want to buy headphones or speakers because you want to be the closest possible to what the artist wanted to paint, right? And you also don’t want to feel tired as fuck listening to over-EQed music. So screw Dre shit and any hardware pushing basses so much. You want bass? Dude, pump up the volume. Good headphones almost sound lame. Flat. You got it.

So the right ear stopped working, just like that. I’m like OK, I have other headphones so I try them… Holy shit. It’s like having someone you don’t know in your bed. Gross. I had to put them down 30 seconds later. Who the fuck cut the entire mid-range?

Sennheiser discontinued this particular model. Bummer. I don’t understand why but even the damn manual isn’t available anymore. I saw one pair on eBay. And I see people searching about them. /saves eBay searches

The new 200 series are awful, cheap, not as comfy or even good-looking. I just don’t get it because their technology and speakers are so good. And before the HD200 they had even more comfortable same-looking headphones that of course, I couldn’t get my hands on at that time. Discontinued!

I guess you can’t have a growing “niche” business with products that last more than ten years… The equivalent of my HD200 is a HD25. It costs 200 bucks.