Pet
New Head-Fier
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2009
- Posts
- 27
- Likes
- 12
This evening I arrived home from a week walking in the Scottish highlands with a friend (which was amazing) and was looking around for my Shure SE215s to listen to a bit of music. I couldn't find them where I thought I'd left them. A vague feeling of dread in the bottom of my stomach, and I thought, 'Surely they haven't been in my rucksack all week?'
Unfortunately they had, and that rucksack was not waterproof, and it was raining pretty much constantly all week, with temperatures fluctuating a lot as we went up and down hills. This is the result:
Close up:
As you can see, the cable has gone from the green colour it was previously to a rather strange pale, milky white. The foam tips were soaked through, and the rubber-ish tube in one of the tips was cracked, I presume from repeated cooling and heating.
I figured that because the tips of the SE215 are so narrow the insides surely couldn't have got that wet, so rather than drying them off, I popped on some new tips and plugged them straight in to my source - something I now realise was a pretty stupid thing to do. I immediately noticed that the left side was working but the right side was not. I wiggled the part where the cable connects to the right earphone and tried removing and re-attaching the cable to the right earphone but to no avail. I have now removed both earphones from the cable and put them in a bag of rice on top of the radiator, which is probably the first thing I should have done.
A brief look at the connectors between the earphones and cables suggests there might be a bit of corrosion there - should I try cleaning it, and if so, what with? The connector looks quite delicate, and things I've read about it bending and becoming loose seem to back that up. Is it likely that this will help, or more likely that there was water in the driver and I've completely busted it by plugging it in without letting it dry out?
I've had these for four years and they're my first and only set of IEMs so I'm quite attached to them, but maybe it's time to move onto something new (or a new pair of SE215s)!
Unfortunately they had, and that rucksack was not waterproof, and it was raining pretty much constantly all week, with temperatures fluctuating a lot as we went up and down hills. This is the result:
Close up:
As you can see, the cable has gone from the green colour it was previously to a rather strange pale, milky white. The foam tips were soaked through, and the rubber-ish tube in one of the tips was cracked, I presume from repeated cooling and heating.
I figured that because the tips of the SE215 are so narrow the insides surely couldn't have got that wet, so rather than drying them off, I popped on some new tips and plugged them straight in to my source - something I now realise was a pretty stupid thing to do. I immediately noticed that the left side was working but the right side was not. I wiggled the part where the cable connects to the right earphone and tried removing and re-attaching the cable to the right earphone but to no avail. I have now removed both earphones from the cable and put them in a bag of rice on top of the radiator, which is probably the first thing I should have done.
A brief look at the connectors between the earphones and cables suggests there might be a bit of corrosion there - should I try cleaning it, and if so, what with? The connector looks quite delicate, and things I've read about it bending and becoming loose seem to back that up. Is it likely that this will help, or more likely that there was water in the driver and I've completely busted it by plugging it in without letting it dry out?
I've had these for four years and they're my first and only set of IEMs so I'm quite attached to them, but maybe it's time to move onto something new (or a new pair of SE215s)!
