So unfortunately my AKG K371's 3.5mm to 6.35 mm headphone adapter seems to have broken. A couple of days ago I unplugged the headphones from my DAC/AMP and put it away. Today I plugged them back in and the right channel signal was gone. If I push on the adapter a bit, I can barely get a faint signal in right channel. Thinking back I think I have actually had less signal in the right channel for a while, but chalked it off as bad source material.
I took the adapter from an old pair of ATH-A900x I had lying around, screwed it on and luckily it works perfectly. The K371's adapter doesn't work with the A900x either btw, right channel completely gone.
So my issue is solved for now (I'm happy it was just the adapter, I thought for a moment my EX5 headphone out had broken!), but I got to wondering if anyone could recommend a good quality adapter? Again, I've never had an issue with the A900x adapter which I used for years, it's a nice silver one and seems to be better quality than the one AKG provided:
Also, how do people feel about these small extension cables instead, are they perhaps longer lasting and less prone to wear?:
For one thing I imagine they put less strain on the headphone out of the DAC/AMP.
I took the adapter from an old pair of ATH-A900x I had lying around, screwed it on and luckily it works perfectly. The K371's adapter doesn't work with the A900x either btw, right channel completely gone.
So my issue is solved for now (I'm happy it was just the adapter, I thought for a moment my EX5 headphone out had broken!), but I got to wondering if anyone could recommend a good quality adapter? Again, I've never had an issue with the A900x adapter which I used for years, it's a nice silver one and seems to be better quality than the one AKG provided:
Also, how do people feel about these small extension cables instead, are they perhaps longer lasting and less prone to wear?:
For one thing I imagine they put less strain on the headphone out of the DAC/AMP.