HD 280 Pro HELP!!!!! Right ear isn't working!

[aroue]

Help!

I purchased a beautiful pair of Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's back in March/April, and they've completely changed my perception of portable audio output quality. But the right ear has started not working sporadically!

This is a huge, gigantic problem. I don't know how many of you have used these (or any decent) headphones with only one ear working, but it ruins the experience.

The thing is I know it's not completely broken, because I can tilt it certain ways and I'll hear output from the right eat at times. The left ear, the one the cord is attached to, always works without fail. I can try tilting the right ear vertically away from my ear in combination with horizontal jiggling and sometimes I can achieve sustained periods of time where I can hear the output from the broken ear, but usually the position it needs to be in for that to happen is *not* around my ear!

I hope there's a loose connection in the headphones somewhere which would be easily verified and fixed by doing something or other... but what??


Please help and give suggestions!!

 

[kevg73]

sounds like the wire going from the left ear to the right ear is partially separated... honestly you'll probably just make it worse trying to fix is yourself. Your best bet it to send it back to sennheiser if it's still under warranty. sorry for your loss

 

[ardexx]

Probably the cable is broken at the point where the ear cup(s)rotate. It is very easy to rotate the ear cup almost 180% which does no good to the cable which has almost no free play at all. This is the way my daughter ruined my DT-280 in 5 seconds. I would say it is a design flaw.

 

[karmalaw]

well... the good news is I have a pair of HD280 Pros that I bought about 6 months ago or so, and they have less than 2 hours of time on them (they are too big for me -- and keep sliding down off of my ears

I can't post yet in the for sale section, but I'd sell them.