Moosecrash
New Head-Fier
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I have a set of Sennheiser HD565 Ovation headphones. After a long time of playing with a bad cable, I finally bought a new cable. Initial results were great with no more intermittent cutting out of the right ear piece. After about a month, though, I lost sound completely in the right earpiece. Used some of my old experience in electronics to investigate deeper. Not sure if it was the pressure of the new cable or what, but a really fine wire inside the eaepiece was broken off. Tried to repair by soldering, but failed miserably working with the fine wire. Just talked to the Sennheiser service center and feel somewhat better because they said the factory has determined repair of the fine wires is too difficult to even attempt. They don't repair my type of failure and don't have a replacement earpiece. What they would do is offer a discount on a new set of headphones. They offered a price on a set of HD598 phones which would be a little bit less than what I paid for set of HD598 about a month ago. By the way, I have used the 598 on two desktops, a laptop, an iPad, and the stero system. I am very happy with the performance, but hate to just chuck out the old HD565 with one good earpiece. Looking for someone with an HD565 with one bad earpiece who would be willing to arrage some sort of swap.