Hey All! Some of you may remember that I made a post about a week ago requesting a solution for my Sennheiser hd280 pro curly, 12-pound, pain in the a** cable: Straight Cable Replacement for Sennheiser HD280 Pro Headphones? Modding Headphones? : I called some parts companies, asked some friends, emailed back and forth with Sennheiser and nobody could do anything for me. It's quite a tricky thing, apparently - trying to replace this curly nightmare with a basic straight cable. I came across some vids on the internet where people were taking off the headphone plate and removing the innards and resoldering things to the board and doing all this crap. I was honestly ready to order the parts and do all that, but then a solution dawned on me, and it totally worked. This is what I did:

1. Snipped the curly part from the cable so that I had two parts - The headphones themselves with about a foot of cable coming out, and the quarter inch connection with about a foot coming out as well.
2. Stripped the 4 internal wires back so that there was about a half inch of bare wire exposed on each end.
3. Twisted the wires together with the corresponding color. I tried soldering them, but it was quite tricky and didn't hold well, so I just twisted them together the best I could and then wrapped each one with electrical tape. This looked quite ugly until...
4. I shrink-wrapped them together. Almost seamless appearance (*important note: I had to slip the shrink wrap onto one of the wire ends BEFORE I smashed the internal wires together and taped them. I stunned myself by having the foresight to do this...). Now, I have a working pair of headphones, but the cable is rather short. Only about 2-3 ft. So...
5. I dug around in my drawer and found a quarter-to-quarter cable to use as an "extension." Approx 8 ft.

Boom. Done. Totally works and didn't cost me any money (Well, the electrical tape was $1.69)

Now I have a nice set of headphones that doesn't have a curly cable nightmare from hell. They sound just as good as they did before. I really enjoy using these headphones for reference (especially bass) and I didn't want to just give up on them and buy new headphones as they've become an integral part of my mixing setup...

Cheers everyone. Feel free to DM if you need pics. I filmed the process, so might put up a youtube vid on it.