Project #1: Epic Fail!

[elfs]

I have two major projects today: repair my broken headphones, and finish the monkey bars on the kid's swingset. I have a failure of epic proportions on the headphones.

At first, I thought I'd done a good job. The lines inside are painted, not plastic-coated, so it took me a while to figure out how to scrape them clean. And then, after putting it all together, it worked. I could listen to music through my ipod. It was fabulous.

And then I tried playing Half-Life. And it kept screwing up. I kept looking at the wrong things, turning in the wrong direction. I had wired the left and right speakers wrong, and this is one of those sets of headphones that's not comfortable to reverse. Frack! I've replaced the jack three times now, and each time I lose about three-quarters of an inch of cable. It's going to be too short soon to keep doing this.

Comments

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Once you get the wiring right in the headset, you can go to RatShack and get an extension cable to bring it back to a comfortable length.

What headphones do you use?

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Some sound driver systems allow you to reverse left/right...

[solarbird]

See, I was gonna go one step dumber and suggest replacing the jack. ^_^

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

You may also be able to reverse the sound in HL. I'd be very surprised if you couldn't, in fact. Still... better to have the headphones in the right direction, but it'll work until then.

[kengr]

Ah. Those "shellac" coated lines. Like magnet wire. I think there's a solvent that'll just dissolve the stuff. I'd try acetone first.

on the other hand

[shemayazi.livejournal.com]

Or you could have a kind friend give you a spare set of headphones and bag the project in favor of more fun pursuits...just sayin.