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Recently, disassembling a table, I came across a deep wire and realized that most of this tangle consists of headphones, which had a broken wire.
I think every lover of portable music at home has such a 'tangle', well, or it was, if we did not throw out worn-out headphones.
At the same time, I noticed that the same sections of the wire were out of order for different headphones. For some, this is an area near the jack 3.5 jack, for others, near the remote control, and for others, near the headphones themselves. Not one of the whole mass of faulty headphones had a broken wire in the middle.
Such damage is natural, since it is these sections of the wire that experience maximum loads during operation.
If you are friends with a soldering iron, then such malfunctions will not be a sentence for your headphones.
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You can solder the cable or replace the plug by purchasing a new one from a radio parts store. You can do it easier – buy cheap headphones, and just solder their cable to your own. Or you can go the more complicated way, making additional modding, reinforcing the wire with Kevlar thread or something similar.
And some enthusiastic people make real handmade masterpieces.
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It's not as difficult as it sounds. Only few people bother with such experiments, since most of them use headphones, the cost of repairing which turns out to be higher than the cost of new headphones.
As an example of the price, I can cite the experience of Eldar Murtazin, about which he wrote in one of the issues of Biryulek.
Expensive? Yes. However, there is more a question of the expediency and laboriousness of the repair. It's just that the work of the master began to be appreciated as well as the iron itself.
Knowing all this, someone, taught by bitter experience, acquiring new headphones, 'out of the box' is trying to strengthen them using folk methods, among which there are bold solutions ranging from a spring from a push-button pen to a heat-shrink tube in problem areas.
The pinnacle of engineering is a combination of two methods – a spring from a push-button handle in a heat-shrink tube. Cheap and cheerful.
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And how do you like this method – you buy a splitter, from which one of the sides is cut off, and the rest is used as an adapter, which takes on all the destructive effects of the pocket. At the same time, the adapter also serves as protection against accidental jerks, in which the headphone wire does not break, but simply unfastens from the adapter. Brilliant! ?
In addition to these bold experiments, you can find many instructions on the network for replacing the wire and for strengthening it.
And after looking at this problem, I had a question – can't manufacturers really make the wire more durable near connectors and in places of frequent bends? What is the reason for such persistence in the production of accessories, in which the wire in problem areas has the same design and thickness as in the rest, which is not subjected to such loads?
Yes, of course there are headphones with a detachable cable, but those are a drop in the bucket.
The rest die on average after a year and a half of constant operation.
What is the reason for this desire to make the cable the same? If we talk about the design with a detachable cable, then everything is simple – banal savings. The use of a detachable cable in inexpensive headphones is impractical, since this design will be more expensive than the headphones themselves. But what prevents manufacturers from strengthening the cable in places of greatest stress? For example, make the cable cross-section thicker three to five centimeters from the plug. Or add other structural elements in these areas. Unclear. Although it is understandable – why do better what already works, and even brings a constant income? That's right, there is no need.
Better let the wires break, the plugs break, and the buyer buys.
In all this chaotic stream of thoughts, I have a question for you, dear readers – what are you doing with your favorite headphones that have a broken cable? What do you do with a device that actually remains operational but requires only minor repairs? And are you willing to pay for headphone repair?