Comments on: How-To: Repairing Faulty Headphones

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:04:39 +0000

I just broke off the connector to my Skullcandy Skullcrushers, and I said to myself, “I sure am glad I know how to fix this, or I would be really mad.” So I clipped off the end and striped the wires back to find nothing like I have ever seen before. What am I supposed to do with this?

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll24/benenarmor/skullcandyend.jpg

By: Cody

Cody — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:00:02 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, my shure E2s have had a short in the splitter for about a year now, finally decided to go ahead and rewire them, figure I might as well replace the plug too… Ended up getting this exact jack and buying some silver plated Teflon wire, hope all goes well, I know I’ll at least get this part right, cutting open the actual earbuds is gonna scare me a little though, I don’t even have the transparent ones.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:01:19 +0000

can anyone point me in the direction of a similar product made by someone else, I can’t get radioshack products in Canada

By: jajajaj Lol

jajajaj Lol — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:16:19 +0000

I bought two conectors for a couple of bucks …….

By: Stee

Stee — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:12:01 +0000

You legend!

Thanks mate you saved me quite a lot of money

Just a common thing I've found blue wire is the shortest point. copper (ground) is the long middle point and red is the slightly longer point. So to make things easier for people in order of lenght of terminals:

Blue Red Copper

The colour codes seem to be standard. This worked on my fatality headset

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:36:47 +0000

Brilliant advice!

I had a $50 pair of Sony headphones break on me. For four bucks I had them working better (and looking nicer) than before!

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:25:01 +0000

Hi there,

having real trouble with this. Not using exactly the same jack but same TRS connection. I've got a red, blue and bare connector and am trying to get a steady signal through the headphones. Have tried every combination and can only get a brief second of sound and then nothing.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Greg

By: your ass

your ass — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:50:06 +0000

you will neve get this

By: Ugochi

Ugochi — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:39:38 +0000

can I use rubber cement instead of epoxy as a way to stabilize the wires?

By: James

James — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:40:47 +0000

also, make sure you loop the cover and plastic tube into the wire first BEFORE soldering the connection…i made the connection and then realized i couldn’t put the cover or tube on, so I had to pull it all off and rewire it.