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Recable them - can be done fairly cheap. Lots of options. If by chance they have a detachable cable that's even easier - but I doubt it.. no idea. If you recable them, be sure to tin the tips of the new wires, tin your iron, and work fast when contacting the solder point on the driver. If tinned properly you can flow the solder in <1 sec. If you don't and you heat it for several seconds or more, you risk melting a voice coil - ask me how I know. :) I've only had one recable disaster, and it was a costly one. Now I be sure my iron and wires are tinned well before any heat ever comes near the drivers!

well, thanks to Head-Fi (and the audiophiles of this site) you've made the right choice. I don't get how the "Beats" can be extremely popular. marketing I suppose, and people haven't tried anything better. I auditioned them, alongside other headphones from Senn, Sony, B&W, at an Apple store. they were by far the worst of the bunch. really cheap sounding headphone not worth half the price tag. haven't heard the MS 400's but I bet they're better than the freaking Monster's.

there are a number of places that offer a re-cabling service, but comes at a cost (depending on the choice of cables), or you can try do it yourself cheaper, if you know how. try asking in the DIY forum.

I wouldn't worry about until it broke though, if it ever does.

Yeah you kinda have to go the solder route. The only way I can think you'd avoid that is if you had never-soldered drivers with terminals that you could make a solid clamped connection to, but you don't wanna bother with something like that in this case.

Like I said, recables aren't terrible - the one time I messed up was costly, but it could have been avoided. Tin the new wire, tin the tip, only make brief contact. If I didn't explain before and if you don't know, tinning is just apply solder to those parts prior to soldering the actual connection/joint.