earphone question

[BRAVO51]

so i got a pair of sennheiser cx300II and my right bud volume is like 50% lower than the left. I dont blast my music and i treat my earphones with great care. This basically happened after i started using them after swim practice, and there was no water in my right ear. I'm also pretty positive that the internal wire isn't broken.
Mainly use them with my ipod nano 4g and rarely with my pc, but when i do i hear buzzing through them, sounds like my gfx fan.
Any suggestions, help, info?

 

[FireHazard772]

Heh, one thing you might want to check is if your headset is plugged in all-the-way. Just this past week I was having the same problem with hearing things, and than noticed that the sound port wasn't plugged in all the way, only partially.

 

[Droid]

Open a program like mediamonkey or maybe itunes, or just use the windows sound controls and use the pan slider. Pan the sound left %100 and right %100 and see if you can tell any difference. Make sure it is the same sound, so you'll have a reference from each channel, Left and Right. Either way, also use something else that has Pan on it to rule out that it isn't just your computer. Try another set of headphones and do the same thing with the pan. That would be the quickest way to rule out your headphones.

 

[BRAVO51]

its the earbuds, my headset worked perfectly and my buds r plugged in all the way

 

[fps]

Bravo51,

Seems like condensation somehow got inside that ear bud. Because the technology inside those buds are so small, the slightest amount of water could trigger a problem such as the one you are experiencing. I know this may sound silly, but try filling a plastic baggy with dried rice. Then throw the headphones inside the rice, seal it, and let it sit overnight. The idea behind the rice is that the dry grains will absorb any possible moisture that may have slipped in.

Usually this method works with water-logged cell phones, but it's worth a try.

 

[BRAVO51]

Bravo51,

Seems like condensation somehow got inside that ear bud. Because the technology inside those buds are so small, the slightest amount of water could trigger a problem such as the one you are experiencing. I know this may sound silly, but try filling a plastic baggy with dried rice. Then throw the headphones inside the rice, seal it, and let it sit overnight. The idea behind the rice is that the dry grains will absorb any possible moisture that may have slipped in.

Usually this method works with water-logged cell phones, but it's worth a try.

makes sense, well i have been going to swim practice recently and my earbuds started to fail a 2 days ago