Headphones suddenly started weird

Jair885

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My Hyperx Cloud 2 suddenly while whatching a youtube video started to get weir all the sudden. I dont know how t explain it but i found a post on another forum from 2013 which explains it exactly how i hear.

"Moogie
December 28, 2013 5:38:24 PM

Ugh, forum dumped my post when it asked me to register. Time to re-type everything!

Sennheiser HD215 headphones. They stopped working properly one day while I was watching a video. Have tested other headphones and they work fine, so the issue is definitely the 'phones and not the source.

Both speakers work, but the sound that comes out of them seems to be some weird abomination of stereo-but-not-really-stereo sound.

What I mean is, it almost sounds like just 1 channel being played, and it's being played in BOTH ears. When I do an audio left/right test, I hear *both* sounds from *both* ears, centrally. But the sound I hear is this really garbled, underwater noise. I hear only half the instruments in a song, and they sound sharp and twangy. Vocals are almost inaudible.

But I hear it all from both speakers at the same time, so this is not a case of "one ear died". It's a case of... something nobody's heard of before, apparently.

It's less like a single channel of stereo, and more like... it's only playing a certain range of sounds. Like half the band (and the vocalist) got up and left the studio, leaving the rest to play this really rather pathetic tune all by themselves.

Is there any DIY soldering I could try, or am I SOL? I have zero electronics experience, but my dad could follow some simple instructions if anyone has any clue what's going on. This problem is really weird and no amount of Googling has brought up anything similar.

Advice welcome, let me know if there is more info I can provide and I'll do my best."
http://www.tomsguide.com/answers/id-1952036/headphones-suddenly-producing-sound-channel-ears.html
Nobody answered him. please i have the exact same problem, i already connected my iphone headphones and the sound comes from left and right properly so its not the hyperx doggle, or the motherboard sound card. The problem came out of nowhere. Please there must be a way to solve this.
 
What you describe, sounds like ground connection of stereo cable has been broken off.
This results in left and right signal to get added together. Vocals get removed, because it's usually pseudo stereo (inverted phase mono signal).

You could probably fix it by replacing signal cable of your headphones.
 


What is the signal cable? the headphone jack? how do i fix it? cand i paysomeone to do it? how much would it cost?
 
Audio signal cable. Damage could be on the connector, could be somewhere in the middle of the cable or cable solder joints inside of headphones.
Try bending the cable in different positions to see, if that changes anything.
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Yeah moving the cable to different positions makes it better, even taking out a little bit of the connector out of the donggle made it able to hear vocals, but the sound still dissorted. Bass sounds weird and the left and right sound comes from the middle. So i need to replace it? is there an easy way to do it? or maybe is it the connectors from the ears part? It was so random one moment it worked fine next second it didnt work.
 


And would any cable be usefull or do i need anything special?
 


I cant find where to buy a cable, and someone on reddit had a similar problem and hyperx they dont offer repairs lol. I guess i have to buy a new headphones rip.