Headsets - fixing faulty speaker plug?

[Dario D.]

The left earpiece of my Sennheisers recently died, and I realized that it was (most likely) due to the green plug that goes into the back of the sound card, oddly enough. (kind of like this one below)

No matter what it's plugged into (sound card, IPod Touch) it's iffy, and when I rotate the plug, BOTH earpieces blip out. (until I undo the rotation) So, obviously, something is wrong with the plug. Any way to repair it, or have a new one put on?

This headset costs a LOAD of money... and, of course, Sennheiser won't do anything, so, at first I bought a replacement SteelSeries Siberia, but then had to return it (not worth the $80. Could barely even produce bass, and the Mic quality was inferior to my 3 year-old, equally-priced Sennheisers).

 

[criccio]

Chop the bad one off, strip the cable and solder on a new one. Do it nice with some shrink-wrap of course. Hell, I would go all out and sleeve the whole wire.

You could even use this as an opportunity to upgrade the entire wire to better quality cabling. Guy do this all the time at HeadFi.