Chewed earbud cord ruined the wrong side

[murphyslabrat]

So I got the plantronics .Audio 480 on one of the Newegg shell shockers, and have loved it. The sound quality is a little biased towards the high-end, but it's a compact little wonder, to which I was growing quite attached...especially for the microphone performance. They are far from perfect, but they blow the full-sized .Audio 370 clean out of the water....though, I guess, a lump of crap would as well.

I brought it with me when I made my post-finals visit to my folks, and lo and behold, the cat got ahold of it. He chewed on one side, the cord to the right earbud. That earbud works alright, but it's the left one that is barely audible now. I wanna know why that is. How come when the right side gets chewed on, it's the left that suffers.

Is it a crossover, and the left channel got severed? That theory would explain it, but I couldn't imagine why they would do that. It seems like unneeded cost increase for an effect that most players support.

If it is that, then slicing it open and splicing the wires together (I have some soldering equipment to make it a permanent fix), but I don't wanna do that if it isn't the case.

 

[TidusZ]

cat chewed off the microphone cord for my brothers sennheiser pc350's the other day, he was pissed.

 

[murphyslabrat]

So far, the same cat has ruined two pairs of Plantronics .Audio 370's, a Logitech Clearchat, and this set. I am a little fed up with it at the present time.

 

[TidusZ]

Try calling a few chinese restaurants and ask if they'd like to take him/her in. Or, get a spray bottle and spray the cat really good anytime it bites at your cables, that'll teach it possibly.

 

[murphyslabrat]

The problem is that it isn't my cat, it's my parents. I think my mom would be open to the idea of "employing" it with Chinese cuisine, but my dad and siblings like the cat too much.