HD-280 Pro repair

bought my Sennheiser HD-280 Pro in early 2003 and they've been great cans since.

I am not an audiophile nor headphone fanatic, I just bought them from the PX on base because I wanted a decent pair of closed headphones and the only ones that they had were the HD-280 Pro for $100 (no tax at P<rolling eyes>.

Today at the airport, I was listening to my headphones connected to my MP3 player and it worked fine. I handed the cans to my friend, who put them on backwards, ie left side on his right ear, and he asked me why one side has no sound and I think WTF? I messed with it for a while at the airport to no avail.

After I got home from the flight, I took the thing apart and found both drivers to be working - they both measure 85 ohms. However, I find that there is no continuity between the terminals on the left side and the right side on the wires that carry the signal from the left to the right.

I pulled the right side earpiece apart and find that the wire somehow got pinched and severed in the hole in where the right earpiece is hinged.

I called Sennheiser to see if I could get a piece of wire, but they said that I could only get the wire if I replaced eht entire headband. He said that I might be able to find the wire if I could find something called Litz Wire.

I have some difficulty finding this because it doesn't seem like a common item. I also do not know what the gauge of the wire is.

Anyone have some suggestions on how to repair my headphones. I am not ready to throw out my headphones for a seemingly simple fix.

I don't know the gauge of the wire though, and I don't have wire just sitting around.

Anyhow, I got someone's broken Koss ear buds and used the wires from that to replace the broken wire. It seems to work fine even though I did not braid it. My though here is that wire is wire, but I don't hear anything wrong with them so I'm not worried.