A700 plug broke

[coldmeat]

I don't mean with the plug in various states of insertion. I mean if the wires are soldered or not.

Ya that's what I meant. I'm not going to solder the wires to the plug until it works.

 

[Howard]

Ya that's what I meant. I'm not going to solder the wires to the plug until it works.

You were going to do that anyway. Also, troubleshooting is a fact of life.

Or you could always send your headphones to any number of people who'll fix them for you.

 

[coldmeat]

You were going to do that anyway. Also, troubleshooting is a fact of life.

Or you could always send your headphones to any number of people who'll fix them for you.

I've just never soldered anything before, so I don't know how easy it is to get off once it's on. I don't want to solder them on, then ruin the plug when I need to try and fix it.

 

[Howard]

Just heat up the solder and pull the wire out. If you want to clean up the solder, you'll need either a solder sucker (very useful) or soldering braid (also very useful).

 

[Howard]

Also, watch these:

http://tangentsoft.net/elec/movies/

 

[coldmeat]

What I said before though was that I don't get any sound unless both the left and right channels are attached. I've tried pulling one out, then the other and neither work without the other also attached.

 

[sdifox]

What I said before though was that I don't get any sound unless both the left and right channels are attached. I've tried pulling one out, then the other and neither work without the other also attached.

there is 3 conductors in the cable right?

 

[coldmeat]

there is 3 conductors in the cable right?

yup, the ground is always connected.

 

[sdifox]

I tried the dollar store, they didn't have it. So either I pay $4 a piece at the Source, or I drive 45 minutes to the city to get one there.

dollar stores around here have the shitty minijack to rca cables.

 

[coldmeat]

Do you think the problem could be inside the headphones themselves? It's possible that the problem started before the plug broke and I just never noticed.

I would open them up if I could figure out how to...

 

[Howard]

Do you think the problem could be inside the headphones themselves?

No. The last point of uncertainty is where the conductors diverge. After that, there is no problem. Before that point, there can be a short or whatnot.

 

[coldmeat]

No. The last point of uncertainty is where the conductors diverge. After that, there is no problem. Before that point, there can be a short or whatnot.

But they split inside the left earpiece, behind the driver. I thought maybe I could have pulled on it too hard or something.

 

[coldmeat]

Ok well I took the earpiece apart, it all looked fine so I put it back together. Now when I hold the wires in the plud a certain way, it works like it's supposed to. I don't know what has changed, maybe I just needed to get away from the plug for a little while.

 

[coldmeat]

It's really a pain to solder this with this soldering iron. All I had available was an 80W and the tip is bigger than the whole plug.

 

[Howard]

lol an 80w wtf

You could get away with a 15W unit

 

[coldmeat]

K I think I have it fixed now. I just didn't solder at all cause it was impossible. I ruined 1 plug by trying. It's still really sensitive and wants to jump into mono all the time but I think I clamped it in a way that it works, and as long as I'm not too rough with it it will be fine.

Can someone tell me if the left audio in this video sounds bad to them too? I think it's the clip that sucks, not my headphones because everything else sounds good, I just want to be sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGyegI9azho&feature=related

edit: Although I got them working, I think I might still look for a new pair of headphones soon.

 

[Ika]

Yeah, the left side is kind of shitty. This is the one I use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ODm-F9-IM&feature=related