Thanks for your advice!   I guess end to end just means, make your own cable? It seems that's possibly the best option (might also do the mini jack mod since I'll be opening up the headphones). Google turned up nothing for replacement stock cables, and sending to Alessandro in the US would...

Can anyone help? Trying to avoid doing something stupid here...   Thanks!

Hi   I've a pair of Alessandro MS-1 which have a break in the wire just above the Y split.   I'm going to need to take the Y splitter apart - from my googling I've found that one possible way to do so is to slice it in half with a knife. Is this the best way?   I'd also consider...