electronics help: Headphone-In jack will only output to both ears if I wiggle the jack back and forth and hold it in a certain position. - Help.com

buy a new pair they are broken, i guess the tiny wire has broken inside and by wiggling it you make the connection again, i have set fire to 100’s of pairs of mine that do the exact same thing, winds me up.

You’re not holding your mouth right… You can solder the connection together, or try and if you can’t you can burn them with the soldering iron.

The same thing happened/is happening with my mp3 player. The only thing I can tell you is: 1:get a new headphone jack, 2:get used to it, 3: tape it in that position and get new headphones for the other things you use these for.

aint worth the aggro in trying to fix them, you prob would need to butcher the hell out of em to get to the wire and they just be a mess, so cheap just get new and bin old.

The headphones are fine he said. The jack in his drum machine isn’t workin.

The line-in jack?

The line-out jack is what your talking ’bout.

King_T wrote:
The same thing happened/is happening with my mp3 player. The only thing I can tell you is: 1:get a new headphone jack, 2:get used to it, 3: tape it in that position and get new headphones for the other things you use these for.

Try these

Well being an electrician’s son it is easy. For you it might be. You just need to get a diagram to show you how.

King_T wrote:
Well being an electrician’s son it is easy. For you it might be. You just need to get a diagram to show you how.

(Get them off the internet)

Wire strippers, wire clippers, (leave some of the color so you know where the wires go) and soldering iron w/ solder (if you don’t have one use electrical tape)

Hope that helps.

probably not. The jack (like the one on my mp3 player) gets dirty and shorts out or the connections come loose.