make cord shorter?

[straye]

Im not too sure if this belongs in here as the rest of the stuff sounds so technical but anyway..

i bought a pair of beyer dt231 for use on the trains. it sounds decent enough and will do fine but the cord is way too long. I wanna take a metre or so off. will i be able to just cut the piece out and solder the three wires inside back togehter and wrap the thing up with electric tape? think ive got a solder kit lying around.

Thanks

 

[jpelg]

Funny, I just did that last night to my ol' SportaPros. I had a short cord from a pair of cheap Sony earbuds that I cannibalized. So I opened up the SportaPros and soldered the Sony cable to the Koss drivers. Works sweet with my remote now.

The other possible method would have been to get a 1/8" plug from RatShack, cut the stock cord to the desired length, and solder the new plug on. This way you don't have to open up the headphones themselves. I may do this with my Ety's as I don't have another shortcord to cannibalize, and I also don't have the necessary pins to make the driver connector.

 

[Dreamslacker]

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Originally Posted by straye Im not too sure if this belongs in here as the rest of the stuff sounds so technical but anyway.. i bought a pair of beyer dt231 for use on the trains. it sounds decent enough and will do fine but the cord is way too long. I wanna take a metre or so off. will i be able to just cut the piece out and solder the three wires inside back togehter and wrap the thing up with electric tape? think ive got a solder kit lying around. Thanks

A better way to do it would be to re-terminated the cord.
You begin by cutting the cord to your desired length, then purchase a 1/8" plug to solder the wires to. This eliminates extra solder joints in the signal path.

 

[Megaptera]

I'll second the recommendation of just adding a new 1/8" plug. They're pretty cheap, only a buck or two for a decent one. I'd also recommend using heat shrink instead of electrical tape; it'll look a lot nicer, and it won't unravel easily.

Another thing you might want to consider is picking up an inline 1/8" jack and adding it to the amputated cord section -- that way if you ever want the extra length all you have to do is plug it back on.