How to turn regular headphones into gaming headphones. High-quality headphones at an affordable price. Self-assembly of the headset

Headphones are a device that tends to break completely unexpectedly and out of place. Usually new headphones are bought immediately, because today it is quite difficult to imagine life without headphones. New headphones don't last any longer than old ones; Thus, in a few years you can collect a whole bag of headphones to varying degrees brokenness. You shouldn’t throw them away - as a rule, from a bag of non-working headphones you can easily collect half a bag of fully functional devices.

Making headphones from scratch with your own hands is a difficult and very pointless task. One way or another, you will end up with an assembly of four headphones constituent elements– plug, cable, speakers and housing. Everything except the housing will probably have to be bought at a radio store or cut off from old headphones - and the housing, probably, too, unless, of course, you have some kind of original idea and especially straight hands. Nobody forbids casting a new case from plastic - but is the game worth the candle?

Assembling new headphones from a pair of old ones is a task without any special tricks. To do this, you only need a sharp utility knife, a soldering iron and a roll of electrical tape.

Studying the device of headphones

Before you start assembling the headphones yourself, it’s worth understanding what this device consists of and how it works.

Standard headphones, whether in-ear or on-ear, consist of three main elements:

So, the design of the headphones is very simple, so disassembling the old ones and assembling new headphones will not be an impossible task. But before you cut your old non-working headphones into pieces, you need to find out why they don’t work, what can be used from them and what cannot.

Spare parts diagnostics

Broken headphones may not work for many reasons. First, before dissecting the device, make sure that they are not actually working - perhaps the problem is not with them at all, but with the sound source you are using.

If the headphones themselves definitely do not work, find out which part is inoperative and which parts can be used. The main causes of breakdowns are wires coming loose from the plug contacts, cable rupture and speaker failure. Thus, you may need three pairs of broken headphones to assemble new working ones - from one you will take a plug, from another - a cable, from the third - a housing with speakers.

We disassemble old headphones

Prepare broken headphones for work and find a suitable tool:

• sharp knife for stripping and cutting wires;
• soldering iron for connecting wires to contacts and fixing twists;
• insulating tape or heat shrink pad for connecting cable sections.

In the last step, you found out which parts are suitable for further use - feel free to chop up the headphones and separate these working parts. The plug must be cut so that at least 3 cm of the old cable extends from it. Speakers are cut off in the same way.

If you can’t find a working plug, cut it completely: remove the plastic case and tear off the remaining wires from the contacts; they will no longer be useful.

The old cable does not have to be intact. Let's say it was too short, and in new headphones you want to extend it, or in all old headphones it is torn. It doesn’t matter - take as many pieces as you find - connecting them is not difficult at all.

How long should the cable be?

The standard length of the headphone cable is 80–120 cm. In this case, a good range is also ensured - the sound source is rarely located far from the headphone body, and the influence of the cable on the sound quality is vanishingly small. If you make the cable longer, signal loss is quite possible, leading to distortion, interference and squeaking in the headphones. A shorter cable will simply be inconvenient.

Is a cable needed at all? Is it possible to make wireless headphones with your own hands? Well, this is, of course, possible, but it is better to do this if the old headphones were wireless - in this case, you can use a working transmitter by inserting it into the case with working speakers. Adding a wireless interface to previously wired headphones is difficult for an inexperienced user - you will need to create a control chip and program it.

Assembling new headphones with your own hands

So, you have received a complete set of working spare parts - it doesn’t matter whether they were obtained from old headphones or bought in a store. All that remains is to assemble them correctly, and you can start listening to music.

Plug

First of all, let's deal with the plug. Its attachment can occur in two ways:

• if it worked, then the piece of wire coming from it is simply connected to the rest of the cable;
• If a non-working plug is taken, it will have to be disassembled and thoroughly connected to a new cable.

Let's look at the second situation in more detail. The design of the plug is simple and not particularly deep - in principle, there is nothing to break there, so even if it no longer works as part of the headphones, it itself is quite functional and can be used again.

Beneath the plastic casing you will find a metal plug base from which two or more metal plates different lengths. In the case of conventional stereo headphones, there will be three plates - two contacts for transmitting the left and right channels and a contact for grounding. The third contact is the easiest to identify - it is the longest and is usually attached to the sleeve - the long part of the plug extending from the base.

We take a cable or one of the parts of the future cable and strip one of its ends. Under the braid you can find 3 or more often 4 wires, which are again stripped of insulation. After this, use a soldering iron to melt the transparent protective layer so that the current flows as freely as possible. After this, the wires are connected to their contacts - the channels can be safely swapped, this will not affect anything. The copper wires are twisted, wound to the contacts and secured with a blowtorch. Remember that the wires must be insulated from each other.

The plug body cannot be restored, but you can use anything instead - just wrap the twist with electrical tape or thread the plug into the tip of a syringe or a pen cap.

Cable

If the cable is assembled from several sections, its parts will have to be securely twisted together. To do this, the parts to be connected are freed from the braiding, and the wires are stripped of insulation. After this, the wires are twisted in a linear or spiral manner - detailed instructions there is no need here, this operation is easily performed on a whim. Then the twist is fastened with a soldering iron, the channels are isolated from each other and from the ground. The top of the twist is wrapped with electrical tape or tightened with heat shrink tape. The main thing is to match the color to the braid so that the cable does not look too handmade. As a last resort, you can make a homemade winding of thread or lacing over the plastic braid.

Speaker

All that remains is to connect the speaker. Disassemble the case using any in a convenient way– it is best if such a possibility is provided and the body parts are fastened with screws that can be unscrewed.

On the body of the emitter itself you will find the same contacts as on the plug. The corresponding channel is connected to one of them, and the ground is connected to the second. We solder, insulate, and put the case back together.

Thus, from several non-working pairs of headphones, it is easy to assemble new headphones with your own hands using a simple set of tools. There is no point in assembling headphones from scratch - it will be easier (and, as a rule, cheaper) to simply buy them at the nearest store.

The design of these homemade headphones uses 0.25GD dynamic heads without any modifications. The ear pads and cushions are made of rubber sponge (you can buy it at the pharmacy). For heads with a diffuser diameter of about 55 mm, jaws measuring approximately 155 x 90 x 35 mm are suitable.

First, take a piece of pressboard or hard cardboard measuring 130X130 mm. A hole is cut out in it and the head is glued into it (Fig. 1).

Fig.1. Dynamic head panel:
1 - cardboard, 2 - head, 3 - leads

Then a recess for the speaker housing is cut out (or plucked out) in the ear pad sponge (Fig. 3), and a hole is made in the cushion sponge (Fig. 2) oval shape. Its inner edge is cut off from the side adjacent to the ear.

Fig.2. Sponge pillow.

Rice. 3. Sponge-embouchure with a recess of the head under the body.

Solder the lead wires and, if necessary, an additional resistor, the resistance of which is selected experimentally depending on the power of the amplifier. Several holes are punched in the cardboard panel and wires are passed through them.
The surfaces of the sponges and panels are covered with glue and allowed to dry. After this, glue is applied again and all three parts are connected to each other, after passing the wires out. The finished earphone should be placed under a press for several hours until the glue dries. To avoid short circuits that could damage the ULF, pass the wires through a sponge using an invisible pin.

The second phone is made in the same way.

The headband is a piece of rubber band about 5 cm wide (it is also sold at the pharmacy).
On outside the ear pads are glued decorative overlay, under which the headband will lie (Fig. 4).

1 - rubber band, 2 - leads.

Now all that remains is to solder a three-wire connecting wire with a connector to the head pins, and the stereo phones are ready for use.
You can connect phones using steel tape or use a ready-made case from old headphones that have fallen into disrepair.

Fig.5. Appearance ready-made headphones made by yourself(phones are upholstered in velvet).

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Once upon a time the author had Explay headphones and a Prolife BT55 stereo Bluetooth headset. In the picture you can see that the headphones were missing some of the wires, and the headset was making wheezing sounds, that is, the speakers were completely faulty.

First of all, let's sort everything out. We didn’t even need a screwdriver for this operation, because all the fasteners are ordinary latches.

As a result of the manipulations done, the headset only has a block with buttons and internal contents.

After the cover has been removed, you can see that the space underneath is identical in diameter to the existing button block.

The last task at this stage is just to remove the wiring.

Next, you need to unsolder the mini-usb socket intended for the charger and the author figured out how to make a small adapter from this socket to the socket that previously belonged to mobile phone nokia.

It turned out that the socket fit perfectly into the small hole that was previously intended for the wire.

After installing the board in place and securing it and the accompanying parts in place using hot glue, what came out was what you can see in the picture.

As soon as the glue has hardened, we immediately attach the speaker itself using a soldering iron, and after that we close the case.

Well, finally everything is soldered and you can snap the case into place. Now let's put the foam rubber pads in place and put them on charge in order to carry out the test.

The check shows us that the indicator lights up red, which means everything is working.

Due to the fact that these headphones are regulated using a wire, the author decided to leave everything as it is. The only thing you need to do is throw the wire behind your head while the headphones are on. The sound in the headphones has become much better and even much stronger than the headset had before. The buttons, as well as the microphone, perform their functions perfectly, which is good news.

According to rumors, the smartphone, which Apple company will release in next year, standard 3.5mm audio output. This means that music on this device can only be listened to through wireless headphones or headphones with a Lightning connector (probably compatible earplugs will be included in the kit). But what should those who have already chosen their headphones do? perfect design with decent sound - shouldn't we abandon them because of Apple's new whim? Fortunately, you can build a wireless adapter for any headphones with your own hands, especially since this requires almost no skills, and it will cost very little.

How to make wireless headphones with your own hands?

In addition to the headphones themselves, you'll need two more components: a Bluetooth audio adapter and a portable charger that will power it.

A Bluetooth adapter usually looks like a flash drive with a 3.5mm audio jack. It costs less than two hundred rubles on AliExpress.

Portable charging device there are different sizes, but for these purposes the smallest one - the size of a lighter - is best suited. For example, like this:

It is powered by two batteries or AA batteries. When they run out, you can simply replace them with new or charged ones.

You can find a miniature Power Bank with a built-in battery, like this:

Once you have all these components, you can start creating wireless headphones.

1. Insert a Bluetooth wireless charging adapter into a charged or equipped with fresh batteries. If everything is good, the blue LED in the adapter will blink.

2. Connect the headphone plug to the audio input of the Bluetooth adapter.

3. Open Bluetooth settings on your smartphone and search for Bluetooth devices. There should be a sound adapter among them, connect to it. If it asks for a code, enter "0000".

4. Turn on the music and enjoy your favorite songs.

Of course, your headphones will be considered wireless only conditionally - they will still have wires, but you no longer need to connect them to the audio output of your smartphone. The same wireless headphones can be built if the 3.5 mm plug in your smartphone has stopped functioning normally, and for some reason you don’t want to repair it. Keep in mind that Bluetooth has an extremely limited range, and if you move more than ten meters away from your smartphone, the sound from your headphones will become choppy or cut out completely.