Does anyone know if Ultimate Ears super.fi 5EBs can be disassembled like this? I'm looking closely at mine and they look like they use some kind of glue to seal up the casing...
Of course, the smartest thing to do might be, in UEs' case, for someone to start selling a replacement cable since they can just be plugged into the earphones themselves - check out the "Replacement Cables" on
http://www.ultimateears.com/_ultimat.../universal.php
Any independent iphone-accessories-would-be-designers interested? I'd like a free cable as "finders fee" ...
GC
Ok I tried doing a cheap version of this cuz I don't have a soldering gun. I spliced open a part of the headphone cord of both the "destination" (read: good) headphones (UE super.fi 5EBs) and instead of unsoldering the iphone earbud wires, just snipped out the wires at the solder point. I tried twisting the wires together, green to green and copper to copper (it was the left earbud I tried first) - and no sound. Since these are Ultimate Ears which have the pluggable, replacable cables (thank god, if I can't figure this out), I plugged the right cable (still intact) into the left earbud and sound was there. But the spliced, left earbud's cable was useless. I even tried twisting the original UE left ear's cable back up to the snipped end, and still no sound.
Long story short: why can't you twist the two ends of the matching wire? Is it something to do with the tolerances for the current, resistance, etc in the wires being very narrow and when you just twist the wires together, the balance is off?
Thanks for any help!
GC