I play my music loud and listen to rock n roll. I have a pair of Motörheadphönes. Top of the line headphones, that are ment for loud music. I had my iPod for over a year and went through 3 headphones bc of this reason ->. The more I use the headphone on the iPod, it seems that the connection with the jack and the headphone plug in over time don't get along, and a speaker went out. I was watching a Metallica documentary when this happened. Sometimes if I twisted the headphone thing by the jack around or push it into a correct spot, it'll play both
speakers, but I have to hold it there or a speaker would go. Is it the iPod? Or just the loud music? Remember, I went through 3 headphones with this same
problem, but I play my headphones loud. Do you know or can suggest what the problem is?
Answers & Comments
It's not the speakers, it's the wiring inside the cables. They are so thin, that with all the moving around and use after a while, if you bend them enough the wires get fatigued and break.
(like if you take a metal coathanger and bend the wire back and forth a lot, eventually it will break.)
Next time, try wrapping a lot of electrical tape around the plug and wire coming out to reinforce the cable and preventing it from bending. It may look ugly, but your headphones will last longer.
The volume had nothing to do with it.
also, I've noticed with MY iPod that some plugs don't quite line up correctly with the jack inside the iPod. and cause the same problem like you had with the Metallica show.
Try getting a new 1/8" stereo plug and strip off some of the wires of you bad headphones and wire them onto a new plug. Or get a cheap set of headphones, cut the plug off and leave 4 or 5 inches of wire.
Cut a few inches of your headphone wire and plug off, strip the wires off of both and twist them together to connect both wires . I bet your headphone will work again.
It's not difficult to wreck headphones that way.