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Make a Hybrid iPhone Headset That Actually Sounds Good

Posted August 30, 2010 2:53 PM

From Lifehacker:

If you hate the quality of Apple's included iPhone headset but love the functionality of the remote, here's a quick hack to combine the remote with a better headset for quality sound on the cheap. Headphone hacker Yutaka Tsutano shows us what is a pretty easy hack, believe it or not. While you can potentially destroy two pairs of headphones, you're really just combining wires and you can easily recover from an error in the process.

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08/30/2010 8:30 PM

"Strip the coating off the wires. You'll have one wire for the left earbud and one wire for the right earbud."

Anyone know how this works? Is there an earth return through the head?

What's 'specially difficult about using a different set of headphones instead of the earplug things anyway?

Can't understand why CR4 is featuring this.

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08/31/2010 6:24 AM

It must be one of them there new-fangled "wireless" earth returns!

I don't see the point of a remote with an iPhone anyway, although I don't own one so I could be missing something, but isn't it small enough to hold and easy to navigate? Why not just plug in a pair of comfortable & decent-sounding Sennheisers?
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08/31/2010 10:52 AM

Funny thing is, is that the first comment on that page is from the guy who actually did the mod. He had some interesting things to say about the article and the process.

Can't understand why CR4 is featuring this.

Me either.

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