ChickPhilA
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I've been using AKG K52s for months and they're showing the starting signs of the dreaded "move phone slightly, audio briefly cuts out in one ear" phenomenon, but there's no visible damage, and bending and twisting the wire immediately after this happens doesn't reliably reproduce the results yet
I've been wrapping the jack end of the wire in electrical tape till I've reached a satisfactory stiffness, and so far it's worked a treat, but now after unwrapping it there's no damage I can see, so I'm not sure what part of the headphone is failing
There is also a small cut near the jack; I was using shrink tubing there, but the stuff I bought turns into a solid casing, so I cut it off and nicked the wire a bit in the process, but the damage wasn't bad, the copper is exposed but not affected or altered in any way, so I just wrapped that section tightly in a short strip of tape, it's been fine this whole time, unwrapping it now shows no further damage either
I've also braided the wire because it was way too long. I've checked the braided portion and it seems fine too. Fiddled with the headphone end of the wire in a similar way as to the jack end after audio messes up, same result; problem can't be reproduced
Currently the only persistent problem from this is a bit less volume on the left side, that started three days ago, but the instances of audio messing up because of an abrupt movement are getting more and more frequent, I'd much prefer to nip this in the bud
I've been wrapping the jack end of the wire in electrical tape till I've reached a satisfactory stiffness, and so far it's worked a treat, but now after unwrapping it there's no damage I can see, so I'm not sure what part of the headphone is failing
There is also a small cut near the jack; I was using shrink tubing there, but the stuff I bought turns into a solid casing, so I cut it off and nicked the wire a bit in the process, but the damage wasn't bad, the copper is exposed but not affected or altered in any way, so I just wrapped that section tightly in a short strip of tape, it's been fine this whole time, unwrapping it now shows no further damage either
I've also braided the wire because it was way too long. I've checked the braided portion and it seems fine too. Fiddled with the headphone end of the wire in a similar way as to the jack end after audio messes up, same result; problem can't be reproduced
Currently the only persistent problem from this is a bit less volume on the left side, that started three days ago, but the instances of audio messing up because of an abrupt movement are getting more and more frequent, I'd much prefer to nip this in the bud