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Easy DIY fix for Ultimate Ears (or any other) cable

post #1 of 7
8/10/10 at 2:53am
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I am really pissed off with the UE cable quality. The first one broke after 1 month of usage. After it broke I decided to buy new one. I bought it for 20$ on UE website. The new cable broke after 3 months of use.Both cables broke near the 3.5mm connector.

 

Since I am on vacation and there is no way to quickly ship UE cable here, I decided to fix it myself.

 

Fix is extremely cheap. All I had to buy was a new 3.5mm connector that cost only ~50cents.

http://picasaweb.google.com/AndreEsakia/UEMod?feat=directlink

 

(I do not know how to post pics from picasa...)

 

I am more than happy with the results , the metal connector looks so impressive!


Edited by TheAndre - 8/10/10 at 3:16am
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post #2 of 7
8/10/10 at 3:10am

I can't be the only one to think that the stock cable is so horribly bad that it doesn't deserve to be salvaged even if I were to lose nothing.

Unfortunately, my custom cable is quite stiff and I've been spoilt by the CK100 cable so I hate using the SF5p.

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post #3 of 7
8/10/10 at 3:18am
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I had no other option but to cut the cable

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post #4 of 7
8/10/10 at 3:30am

My dead jackless cable is just sitting there... the entire iem is scrapped because of it. Speaking from personal experience. It's just so ugly and bad.

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post #5 of 7
8/10/10 at 5:19am
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I do not understand, what is ugly? My DIY-ed cable or your jackless one?

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post #6 of 7
8/11/10 at 2:07am

Both.

 

I wrote a large rant on cable quality a while ago. UE's one was the worst. The thing SPRINGS back when pulled straight, it has memory wire, which is more expensive and way worse than ear guides, and on and on...

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post #7 of 7
8/11/10 at 7:59am

It's funny I read this thread today.  I was just fixing my UE super.fi EBs last night because the wire broke inside the monitor.  Had to open it and resolder it, shave off some plastic and glue some pieces back together.

 

Nice job on the fix, I mean you can get picky about colors and what-not but hey it works and it was a cheap fix.  Thanks for sharing with us :)
 

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