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In-ear headphones reduced sounds after year

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  • 25-08-2016 5:47pm
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    mrcheez
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    I have a set of in-ear buds that I use every day for an hour during exercise so they get pretty sweaty and waxy.

    Noticed the volume has dropped about 50% compared to when I first got them, can I regain the volume by trying to clean off the wax etc, or is the damage done?

    The headphones are a black version of these: https://www.amazon.com/JVC-HAEBX85V-Sports-Headphone-Violet/dp/B002GQPSZI
    (splash-proof)


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    mordeith
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    Well yeah. If there's wax over the headphones speaker grill it will reduce the volume.


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    mrcheez
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    mordeith wrote: »
    Well yeah. If there's wax over the headphones speaker grill it will reduce the volume.

    There's no grill as such.. that's the problem.

    It's the black cloth type. Also the sound has stopped in one of the headphones, so unclear if it's just the wax.

    Is white-spirit the way to clean it off?


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    mordeith
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    mrcheez wrote: »
    There's no grill as such.. that's the problem.

    It's the black cloth type. Also the sound has stopped in one of the headphones, so unclear if it's just the wax.

    Is white-spirit the way to clean it off?

    Have you taken off the rubber ear mould? The volume on my left ear phone dropped the other day. Take off the rubber and wiped with a piece of dry tissue. Sorted. The bit of wax was clearly visible in this case


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    mrcheez
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    mordeith wrote: »
    Have you taken off the rubber ear mould? The volume on my left ear phone dropped the other day. Take off the rubber and wiped with a piece of dry tissue. Sorted. The bit of wax was clearly visible in this case

    I've given them an extensive wipe-down now with one of those multi-surface cleaner wipes, shoved it right into the cloth speaker part and magically the headphones seem to be back.

    Would have thought they built in anti-wax measures when designing these things :D


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    iLikeWaffles
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    mrcheez wrote: »
    I've given them an extensive wipe-down now with one of those multi-surface cleaner wipes, shoved it right into the cloth speaker part and magically the headphones seem to be back.

    Would have thought they built in anti-wax measures when designing these things :D

    Bought a large bottle of rubbing alcohol for cleaning electronic components and stuff from amazon works pretty well for cleaning the dirt and grime off headphones you could also use an antiseptic wipe.


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