Headphone cables.

[el murdoque]

I'm pretty sure there are some of you here, who are annoyed by headphone cables.
I love my Sennheiser HD650 cans, and I wear them a lot when I'm in my den.
My e-drums, laptop, pedal boards and several other things run into my mixer and from there it either goes out to a speaker or, more often, headphones.
So whatever I do, playing bass, playing drums, having online lessons, I wear the cans and the cable goes everywhere it's not supposed to be.
Make it too long and it'll drag on the floor, always one slide of the office chair away from a painful death.
Make it too short and you are leashed to the mixer in a very uncomfortable way.
I have the standard cable the HD650's came with in 2005.
Is there an upgrade that makes sense? Will a coiled cable make my life a better one?

 

[ardgedee]

I found a coiled cable is much heavier than a regular cable. That plus the spring action can pull on the phones. Less useful than I had hoped.

Best option IMO is to have a couple different lengths of cable extensions and use the one that fits where you need it.

 

[crentest]

get a dog run cable up, then attach the cable to the leash line to keep it off the floor?

 

[nickpc]

Maybe loop the cable through/around a belt loop - and have the cable run down your back if possible. That keeps it out of the way of your hands/arms/bass, allows you to pull and also control where the cable will fall/lay. It also gives a strain-relief at your end (and you should have one at the mixer end too) if you do manage to pull the cable so the cans don't fly off of your head and fall on something that won't appreciate it.

 

[hbarcat]

I'm pretty sure there are some of you here, who are annoyed by headphone cables.
I love my Sennheiser HD650 cans, and I wear them a lot when I'm in my den.
My e-drums, laptop, pedal boards and several other things run into my mixer and from there it either goes out to a speaker or, more often, headphones.
So whatever I do, playing bass, playing drums, having online lessons, I wear the cans and the cable goes everywhere it's not supposed to be.
Make it too long and it'll drag on the floor, always one slide of the office chair away from a painful death.
Make it too short and you are leashed to the mixer in a very uncomfortable way.
I have the standard cable the HD650's came with in 2005.
Is there an upgrade that makes sense? Will a coiled cable make my life a better one?

I have the same cans you do plus several others, some with coiled cables and others straight. I use them for silent bass, guitar, and drum practice, tethered to the mixer on my studio desktop, and also for casual listening through my portable music player.

Both types of cables are annoying and inconvenient, although I like the coiled cables better when strapped to a guitar or bass, while I much prefer the straight cables when playing drums.

For casual, pleasure listening, I always use a particular headphone (with a specific EQ curve) that has a short, coiled cable.

 

[MatthewDav15]

I'm pretty sure there are some of you here, who are annoyed by headphone cables.
I love my Sennheiser HD650 cans, and I wear them a lot when I'm in my den.
My e-drums, laptop, pedal boards and several other things run into my mixer and from there it either goes out to a speaker or, more often, headphones.
So whatever I do, playing bass, playing drums, having online lessons, I wear the cans and the cable goes everywhere it's not supposed to be.
Make it too long and it'll drag on the floor, always one slide of the office chair away from a painful death.
Make it too short and you are leashed to the mixer in a very uncomfortable way.
I have the standard cable the HD650's came with in 2005.
Is there an upgrade that makes sense? Will a coiled cable make my life a better one?

Totally get this — headphone cables can be such a pain, especially with a setup like that. A good coiled cable might actually help a lot; it keeps things tidy and gives you a bit of freedom to move without the wire dragging everywhere. I switched to one for my studio headphones and it made a big difference!

 

[tothemax]

Cheap and easy fix, get whatever type of extension cable you like then give yourself a short loop to the cans and just use a couple of small binder paper clips. One to attach the cable to your shirt or whatever, and the second to keep the cable from slipping through. I have a 10' coiled extension, and clip the can cable onto my bass strap and feed the cable up behind my back. Just like a guitar cable it works great until you step on it... no fix for that .

Cheers

 

[MatthewDav15]

I'm pretty sure there are some of you here, who are annoyed by headphone cables.
I love my Sennheiser HD650 cans, and I wear them a lot when I'm in my den.
My e-drums, laptop, pedal boards and several other things run into my mixer and from there it either goes out to a speaker or, more often, headphones.
So whatever I do, playing bass, playing drums, having online lessons, I wear the cans and the cable goes everywhere it's not supposed to be.
Make it too long and it'll drag on the floor, always one slide of the office chair away from a painful death.
Make it too short and you are leashed to the mixer in a very uncomfortable way.
I have the standard cable the HD650's came with in 2005.
Is there an upgrade that makes sense? Will a coiled cable make my life a better one?

I feel this pain 100%. I’ve been in almost the exact same situation, and the stock straight cable is always either too long or too short. A coiled cable definitely helped me — it stays out of the way most of the time but still stretches when you move back from the desk. It’s not perfect, but way less chair-rolling cable drama. Just make sure to get one that isn’t too stiff or heavy, especially with the HD650s.