Received: by 10.66.72.73 with SMTP id b9mr1658622pav.9.1343317311762; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Path: p10ni61947386pbh.1!nntp.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad!not-for-mail From: rfd...@optonline.net Newsgroups: alt.tv.tech.hdtv Subject: Re: What would cause this? Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:19:48 -0400 Organization: UseNetServer - www.usenetserver.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 26 Bytes: 2521 X-Received-Bytes: 2629 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:45:07 -0700, "QN" wrote: >My first step would be to connect the headphones directly to the TV, or >through the new cable you bought (just sitting on the floor) to make sure >the problem is in the extension cable. > Thanks for the replies so far. To answer a couple, something I neglected to mention but it seems a moot point, between the headphone plug (Sennheieser headphones by the way) and the fifty foot extension, is a ten foot cable because the fifty foot still wasn't long enough the way I have to route it. I took the ten footer out of the loop and plugged the headphones directly into the fifty footer and I still get the drop outs. I've plugged the headphones directly into the TV and all is fine. So it has to be the long cable. It runs behind two bookcases and one of those electric fireplaces with the artifical flame, so no one goes near it. That's what has me perplexed once I get it working again, that it still goes out with nothing bumping into it at all. As for cutting off the plug and installing a new one, I could certainly try that before tackling the attic in the summer heat. But it's one of those black cables with the molded plugs on each end, the cable itself being no more than about an eighth of an inch in diameter. Is it still possible to strip such a small cable and seperate what has to be very fine gauge wires, to solder to a new plug? I never gave that any thought. But if it can be done, I'll go to Radio Shack and see if I can find a female plug as a replacement. Thanks again.