Originally Posted By: tnicoson

Bill

My point was - the headphone jack on my laptop started feeling sloppy, like yours, and within a few weeks, it quit completely. Mine was the result of an accident of someone trying to help me and moving the laptop with it still connected to the amp and hitting the end of the cable (pulled it sideways). If it had not been for that, maybe it would have lasted forever, but accidents do happen. Soldering is no problem for me. I made my living at it for over 30 years. The problem was getting the motherboard out of the laptop without inadvertently tearing something else up. Apparently the geeks at Best Buy felt the same way, as they wanted a small fortune to replace the jack, so I went for the Behringer unit for $25 and problem resolved.

Ted


Thanks, Ted. Point well taken. My hope is to get Bestbuy to fix it before it fails. It's certainly not going to get any better, only worse. It is already shorting some due to sloppy fit. When the warranty is gone, I can envision the potential of it being expensive.
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