RandomShortGuy
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Hey all. I bought a pair of DT990s 600 Ohm about 2.5 years ago.
About 6 months ago my left driver would randomly cut out (they've been subject to falls every so often due to my being clumsy and the really long cord, but there haven't been any serious falls as of late). I could remedy the situation by tapping the open end of the driver, or turning up the volume.
It would happen maybe once every two weeks - month. It was past warranty (2 year according to the website) so I figured I'd keep doing this until they failed. The right driver never did this.
Well, today is that day. I was using them on and off throughout the day. Put them on my headphone stand to go to the bathroom and when I came back the left driver has been completely unresponsive.
After opening up the headphones it appears that there are no broken connections anywhere. Even fiddling with the connection points yielded no sound. I've tried three different sources and the left driver didn't work with any.
My Google-Fu hasn't come up with any fixes, but someone had a similar problem and he fixed it by dumb luck of random soldering. Unfortunately, the pictures are dead links so I don't know exactly what he did.
I was hoping someone would know where to start.
The broken driver. I do not see any loose/broken connections.
And the working driver just for reference
About 6 months ago my left driver would randomly cut out (they've been subject to falls every so often due to my being clumsy and the really long cord, but there haven't been any serious falls as of late). I could remedy the situation by tapping the open end of the driver, or turning up the volume.
It would happen maybe once every two weeks - month. It was past warranty (2 year according to the website) so I figured I'd keep doing this until they failed. The right driver never did this.
Well, today is that day. I was using them on and off throughout the day. Put them on my headphone stand to go to the bathroom and when I came back the left driver has been completely unresponsive.
After opening up the headphones it appears that there are no broken connections anywhere. Even fiddling with the connection points yielded no sound. I've tried three different sources and the left driver didn't work with any.
My Google-Fu hasn't come up with any fixes, but someone had a similar problem and he fixed it by dumb luck of random soldering. Unfortunately, the pictures are dead links so I don't know exactly what he did.
I was hoping someone would know where to start.
The broken driver. I do not see any loose/broken connections.
And the working driver just for reference
