kanamin
100+ Head-Fier
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I know this will probably sound pretty... n00bish, but, I recently attempted to replace the jack on my Sennheiser PMX200's with a Ratshack (I was desperate) jack for fear of loss of quality/volume because the joint between wire and jack had some frayed wire sticking out of it (my fault, too careless). So, I proceeded to cut the old jack off, strip the insulation, and I found not only stranded and color-coded wire (thank gawd) but some white fibers wrapped inside the strands of wire. Not thinking about the possible harmful effects of burning whatever this stuff was, I attempted to tin the wires, and found that they wouldn't. I'm guessing they're coated, like Sony's headphone cable wire? And that the coating needs to be removed? Also, do I need to worry about the white stuff, at least at the joint?