Recently my Steelseries siberias have been having some problems.
Including
-Randomly loosing audio (specifically the left can)
-Static
-static when changing volume
-Left ear cup developed a background white noise a low humming.
-Weaker bass
All signs point to yes obviously. I am just wondering if theirs a way I can fix them. I wanted a pair of portable cans but if these go then I am forced to buy new cans for home use and ditch buying portable cans...
most likely you can buts its going to take some good soldering skills. Chances are you have a break in the wire. you can either locate the break and shorten your wire or get a new one. If you want a new one hit up ebay for a cord or look on ebay/amazon for an older quality headset being sold for peanuts and use the cord. After that its just opening up your cans and finding where the wires are soldered and unsolder the old wires; then add your own. If your not to keen on soldering you can use wire glue from thinkgeek http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/b70c/ . cut off the old clean the surface and glue. I don't know if it will conduct well for audio but its cheap to try. Hope that helps, its sure cheaper that a new set of cans.
PantyHandler said:
most likely you can buts its going to take some good soldering skills. Chances are you have a break in the wire. you can either locate the break and shorten your wire or get a new one. If you want a new one hit up ebay for a cord or look on ebay/amazon for an older quality headset being sold for peanuts and use the cord. After that its just opening up your cans and finding where the wires are soldered and unsolder the old wires; then add your own. If your not to keen on soldering you can use wire glue from thinkgeek http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/b70c/ . cut off the old clean the surface and glue. I don't know if it will conduct well for audio but its cheap to try. Hope that helps, its sure cheaper that a new set of cans.
I thought about that but I don't really have the soldering skills haha. I did solder back an old pair of ear buds one time didn't come out as planned lol. AGH!
Sounds like it's time for some new cans. There's probably either a short in the wire some where or a solder point is cracking/coming loose.
check if the headphone plug is damaged on ur computer try another working headset and see if it works fine if not the output on ur computer may be damaged ur problem sounds like my brothers laptop his headset output got damaged for constantly walking away from his laptop and forgetting that he still wearing his headset lol.
Edit: and i agree with akimbo too it may be the wires are shortened.
ok so It's not my headset that's creating the white noise the static is still there and all but its my fucking sound card. WTF?
I plugged in another pair of fully functioning headphones into my soundcard and i got the same noise.... -.-
So I'm using onboard audio now... Shit sucks.
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Thanks for the help guys locking.