Be careful of headphone Jacks!

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Be careful of headphone Jacks!

Just a quick heads up folks out there!

Just had a major headache. You would suppose the lovely gold screw in converter jacks with a pair of Sennheiser HD25 II’s woudl be of the utmost quality :thumbsdown:

Just spent over an hour trying to remove the rest of the connector from my 4-chan mixer, thinking it would never come out, now to repair the mixer.
Removed after much hair pulling these remains:

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Look’s like there was a sheer in the plastic connector and the pin has just popped out!! so beware.

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Ouchy!

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Happens all the time… just gotta be careful

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Didn’t realise they split like that. Any reason they do? I assumed the black bits were put into a machined out slice in a solid jack.

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ouch! glad you got it out, hope the mixers ok,
Stuff like this just shouldn’t happen.

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Because each piece is a separate component… The plastic insulates the signal of each.

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Ah well there you are. There was I thinking it was just to tell the difference between stereo and mono

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Mixer’s being put through it’s paces this morning again. Bit of a Heath Robinson-Glue gun repair to the headphone input though. Pain in the butt. But at least the Audio and Headphones are working again, thats all that matter’s.