Broken headphone wires

[Hegs]

Hi,

I have a 100$ pair of roland headphones, but recently there seems to be a problem in the wires near the jack, causing sound to only come out one side of the headphone. If I wiggle the cord it can remedy the problem tho it often comes back if the cord is moved. Can something like this be repaired - id hate to have to replace these great headphones for such a minor problem.

many thx,

Hegs

 

[punkin]

Which model. A lot of those can be repaired.

 

[dgatwood]

Hi,

I have a 100$ pair of roland headphones, but recently there seems to be a problem in the wires near the jack, causing sound to only come out one side of the headphone. If I wiggle the cord it can remedy the problem tho it often comes back if the cord is moved. Can something like this be repaired - id hate to have to replace these great headphones for such a minor problem.

many thx,

Hegs

Near the plug? Easy. Worst case scenario is you have to cut the last inch off the wire and solder a new plug on the thing. Five minutes flat if you're good with a soldering gun or soldering iron. Maybe a half hour if you aren't.

That said, try another pair of headphones or something to make sure it's the plug and not the jack on whatever you're plugging it into.

Oh, and one more tip: get*or make yourself a short headphone extension cable. This will significantly reduce the risk of cable breakage because when you yank on the cable, the direction of cable motion will always be in a direction that pulls apart the two connectors at the end of the short extension instead of sometimes yanking sideways on a jack on a device and potentially breaking the jack on the device....

Final note: L-shaped plugs are a tool of the devil and cause more damage than everything else in the world combined. Avoid L-shaped plugs.

 

[Hegs]

kewl, thanks dgat. So where do u reckon I could get a new plug from?! And doesnt soldier become hard, unlike flexible wires, meaning that if i solder wires together itll be hard and possibly crack if bent?

thx


btw, the extension idea is tops!

 

[MickB]

Beware that the cable might be the non-oxidising kind (if I'm using the right term), whereby the wire itself is covered with a substance to keep the air out and so wouldn't be sheathed in the normal way.

Those are a devil to fix because once you've cut them they can't just be soldered together again.

When I had a similar problem with my Vivanco headset wire I had to change the whole cable for some balanced patch cable. Worked just the same, even though I've also had to cut chunks out and rejoin with terminal blocks.