So i have a pair of new headphones but the end of it got stuck and it broke. So i bought a wire and i cut it in half looking to replace the new end to my headphones. I have done this before. But this time i discovered that the inside of the wires are weird. Anyone have any experience in this? As you can see in the pictures the new end i want to put in has different wiring than the orignal ones OLD END NEW END
In headphones and most consumer audio equipment, there are three wires, left, right and an earth to act as a shield from interference. My guess is that on your headphones, then have two cores running up the cable (i.e a rectangular-ish cable or a cable with two obvious bumps) and each of the signals (l+r) has a separated shield. All you need to do if identify which is which and separate the shield from your donor plug into two, then you can attach one half to each of the shields on your broken headphones. edit: having a closer look at your pictures, the shield on the donor plug is the wire without the insulation, left is probably white and right red. From your headphones, you may be able to chase the cables down from the left and right had sides to work out which is left or right and the shield will be the one wrapped around the inner cable
The 2 unshielded copper wires on your headphones should go with the unshielded oe coming out of the jack. The red is to be connected with the red. And the green to the white. If you try just connecting them check out if left and right in your headphones is correct and then you're done. If l+r is backwards then switch it to red+green and white+red.
