Audio Technica Ath m50x sound problems with one side. | Headphone Reviews and Discussion - Head-Fi.org

rjorge99 · Jun 8, 2016 at 10:43 AM

Hi everyone,

I am new in this forum, and I really will appreciate your help on this. some months ago, I got an audio tehnica ath m50x, but after some months, i started to have problems with them.

The problem is that the right side does not have sound,some times it has and some time it does not. It looks like is not a cable problem, I tried the three of them and with all of them happens.

When it works... after some minutes, the sound starts to move to my left side, till the point where the right side does not have any sound.

Like I said, most of the time, only one side (the left one) has sound. And when both of them have sound,,, in some minutes, the left side starts to reduce the volume till im left with only one side working.

I will appreciate some thoughts and help on it.

Thanks.

pbui44 · Jun 8, 2016 at 11:08 AM

rjorge99 said:
Hi everyone,

I am new in this forum, and I really will appreciate your help on this. some months ago, I got an audio tehnica ath m50x, but after some months, i started to have problems with them.

The problem is that the right side does not have sound,some times it has and some time it does not. It looks like is not a cable problem, I tried the three of them and with all of them happens.

When it works... after some minutes, the sound starts to move to my left side, till the point where the right side does not have any sound.

Like I said, most of the time, only one side (the left one) has sound. And when both of them have sound,,, in some minutes, the left side starts to reduce the volume till im left with only one side working.

I will appreciate some thoughts and help on it.

Thanks.

Are you locking the cables into the ear cup? There is a tiny notch right under the headphone jack that locks into the tiny ear cup termination spout when you put the jack in and turn it.

rjorge99 · Jun 8, 2016 at 12:13 PM

yea, I do lock the cable.

JBal4 · Jun 9, 2016 at 5:59 PM

what are you using them with? laptop, ipod, bigger setup?

rjorge99 · Jun 9, 2016 at 6:01 PM

with my laptop. thanks for the reply

buke9 · Jun 9, 2016 at 6:10 PM

Do you have another source to try them out on?

rjorge99 · Jun 9, 2016 at 6:12 PM

ye, I did try with my phone, and still, having the same problem. It was working ok, but suddenly It started to have this problem

JBal4 · Jun 9, 2016 at 7:22 PM

Thats really odd, usually sound would just cut out on one sides if there was a wiring problem. If you have a multimeter you could check your resistance on each channel.