![\"img_0769\"](\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_0769.jpg\" "\\"img_0769\\"")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The other day my iPod ‘stock’ earbuds stopped working correctly.\u00a0 At first I thought it might be something wrong with my ear, since the volume on the right side was so much lower than the left.\u00a0 I swapped the buds around and the low volume followed – so it wasn’t my ears.\u00a0 Next worry was that my iPod had gotten sick, but a quick check with another set of headphones and I knew I was ok.<\/p>\n
While the stock iPod headphones aren’t anything special, I’ve grown to like them.\u00a0 They are actually well matched to the iPod itself which I find to have background hiss when used with better headphones.\u00a0 Most of my listening is done at about 1\/3 volume anyways – I did enough damage to my hearing as a teenager, I like to pretend I’m smarter now.<\/p>\n
Of course I had to take them apart to fix them.\u00a0 Initially I had no idea how to open them up, searching around found me this posting on taking the older style apart<\/a>.\u00a0 It wasn’t until today that I found this video<\/a> – but I had already figured it out myself.\u00a0 In the picture above, you can see the two parts.\u00a0 A little pressure with your thumb nail on the\u00a0 joint and it will pop apart nicely.<\/p>\n Once I had them apart – I tested them to see if the problem was still there, so I could poke at the wires to see what was wrong.\u00a0 They worked fine – no fiddling required.\u00a0 So I simply popped the earbud back together and its been working normally since.\u00a0 I suspect that the two wires had gotten twisted and were rubbing causing a short, but who knows.<\/p>\n Sometimes things just need to be taken apart and put back together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The other day my iPod ‘stock’ earbuds stopped working correctly.\u00a0 At first I thought it might be something wrong with my ear, since the volume on the right side was so much lower than the left.\u00a0 I swapped the buds around and the low volume followed – so it wasn’t my ears.\u00a0 Next worry was … Continue reading “iPod earbuds disassembled”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}