Serious Problem With Headphones

[Man.]

Nope I dont wrap my headphones I just put them in my pocket.

Also today my other headphone stopped working so its fully gone now.

[mr.handsomeman]

well I mean, even putting them in your pocket can cause problems. There's a lot of body heat and then the fact that when you sit down it can bend your wires in ways that you really don't want them to bend.

[Stuart]

With your next ones, why not try and take them out when your not using them?

[Man.]

Originally Posted by Stuart

With your next ones, why not try and take them out when your not using them?

Will do, thanks for the advice.

[Lare2]

Originally Posted by jackluo923

That's why there's a thing called fire. LOL

I've repaired many broken pairs of earphones and this is how the repairing process goes

The coating you've described is enamal or a kind of plastic. You'll first need to burn it off before soldering.

Equipments:
multimeter
Soldering gun
Solder
Preferably burnzomatic torch, but smoke lighter will also work
your nails
A metal grasping device that holds the wires

1) Plug the soldering iron into the wall to preheat it
2) Take apart the earphone so the segment where it needs fixing is exposed. In your case, open up the earbuds.
3) When your soldering iron is finished heating up, make sure the temperature reach the max. To test this, put a little solder on it, if the solder melts instantly, it means its ready.
4) Unsolder the wires from the earbuds and remember which wire goes where.
5) Take the metal grasping device and grasp the wire 0.5centermeter from the end.
6) Swip the torch across the wires so the enamal burns by itself, but not melting the wires.
7) Repeat the process for all the wires that needs fixing
8) Use your nail to scrap the black burnt plastic off the wires, be sure not to pull the wires in half.
9) Solder the wire back to the earbud
10) Close the earbud
11) Test out the earphones by using the multimeter
i) Test out the left channel
a) Place the Black wire on the ground on the 3.5mm jack
b) Place the red wire on the left channel on the 3.5mm jack
c) Record the Ohm reading
ii) Test out the right channel
a) Place the black wire on the ground on the 3.5mm jack
b) Place the red wire on the right channel on the 3.5mm jack
c) Record the Ohm reading
iii) Compare the result.
a) If the 2 readings are the same, it means your earphone is fixed.
b) If the 2 readings are different, one of the reading is almost double the other one, it means you have a short in the earphone
c) If the 2 readings are a little bit different, it means that you haven't properly solder the wires on the earbud or you haven't completely stripped the enamal coating on the earphone


Good luck

Nice tut thanks. I'll try it on a cheap headphones that have a bad contact

[alisadm]

If you're really this hard on 'phones, don't buy 'buds. Buy some serious professional headphones, like the Sennheiser HD-280s. They only have one cable coming out of one side so there's less wear and tear. And "...the headphone's 9-foot cord is detachable, so if it wears out you have only to replace the cord, not the headphone itself." The ear pads also collapse to make them a little easier to carry. Yeah, you'll have to get an adapter to take the jack down from 1/4" to 1/8", but you'll look cooler, in a retro, Radio Raheem sorta way.

They're about $89 at Amazon.

[Gow]

Grado or Alessandro are my suggestions but they are over the ear, open diaphragm headphones.