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So i bought myself a new hoodie from china, with integrated in ear earphones. The hoodie costs about 26£, so i can safely assume the earphones will not be any good. I have over the past few years i’ve aquired myself a few pairs of the AKG in ear headsets that ship with Samsungs flagship devices (s8 and onward), and was wandering if anybody knew of a way to transplant the drivers (i mean the part that actually goes in your ear and plays music) from the AKG headset over to the hoodie. I can solder and work with small wires, just want to know if there’s a way. Asume the fabric of the hoodie can’t be damaged in the process, i don’t want to ruin it. Hoodie: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401504837019 Earphones: https://www.24hshop.no/mobiltilbehor/sam…
It looks like the wires are simply threaded through the seams, from what I can see. I’d suggest you pull as much of the lead of each earpiece out of the hoodie as you can, cut it off and solder the replacement driver to the cut-off wire, insulate it with tape and feed it back into the hoodie. Alternatively, get a bodkin (eBay or sewing supplies shop) and use it to feed a thread through the hems in order to pull the new headphone wires through. Maybe there’s a place where the y-junction lives which was sewn after the wires were threaded through, in which case perhaps you can unpick it in order to fit the new ones, then sew it back on. Or you might have to open up a gap in the hem in order to get the driver or the connector through, then sew it back up.
