I've come across countless posts about the crappy cable on the Klipsch Custom series and several people have asked about recabling them. I recently made a pair of IEMs so my Custom 2s became expendable. While I didn't actually recable them I was curious to open them up and take a look, so I thought I share the photos. After popping them open I think recabling would be pretty easy.
First you want to take off the eargel:
Next, pry off the little ring:
Find the seam that runs down the middle of the shell:
Use a razor blade or something and just pop it open:
The back plate just comes off:
The wires run through the plastic piece that sits over the back of your ear and just terminate to the driver:
The driver is encased in a two part silicone mold:
I was curious to take a look at it since I've now seen a few of the Knowles drivers. The silicone mold just comes apart. It looks exactly like the Knowles DTEC driver:
So, it would basically be a matter of taking out the plastic thing that goes over your ear (I don't really know what to call it). In addition to the wiring there's a metal wire that forms the bend, the end of it just sits in a little notch in the shell (I couldn't really get a good photo of it). Pop that out, desolder the connections from the driver, and you can probably figure out the rest. Granted this is the Custom 2 which is a single dual driver, the Custom 3 has this driver plus a low frequency driver so there will be some additional wiring and probably some kind of passive crossover to deal with.
First you want to take off the eargel:
Next, pry off the little ring:
Find the seam that runs down the middle of the shell:
Use a razor blade or something and just pop it open:
The back plate just comes off:
The wires run through the plastic piece that sits over the back of your ear and just terminate to the driver:
The driver is encased in a two part silicone mold:
I was curious to take a look at it since I've now seen a few of the Knowles drivers. The silicone mold just comes apart. It looks exactly like the Knowles DTEC driver:
So, it would basically be a matter of taking out the plastic thing that goes over your ear (I don't really know what to call it). In addition to the wiring there's a metal wire that forms the bend, the end of it just sits in a little notch in the shell (I couldn't really get a good photo of it). Pop that out, desolder the connections from the driver, and you can probably figure out the rest. Granted this is the Custom 2 which is a single dual driver, the Custom 3 has this driver plus a low frequency driver so there will be some additional wiring and probably some kind of passive crossover to deal with.
