Additional:
Just want too give you guys a bit of a warning about these Blue & Black Armored Wires,
that have been in Dollar Stores, or on the racks near the register check outs.
![Image](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/YnAAAOSwDdBkYgeZ/s-l500.jpg)
I had a gaming headset from a friend come in, that uses this same armored wire cabling.
![Image](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/4e48bb00-c577-4fb0-ba5a-762a4b8a8a7c.e13113d1f3978736bef2e05d3ed15175.jpeg?odnHeight=612&odnWidth=612&odnBg=FFFFFF)
He complained that the microphone stopped working.
After doing some testing......
I found that the area of cable, right before it went into the Left Head Phone Cap.
When you bent it a little, caused the microphone to start working again.
Thinking that this must be a break in the wire.
I went ahead and pulled a part the Left Head Phone Cap.
De-soldered the wires, and stripped the outer casing off the cable, back to before the break in the wire.
Well, to my surprise the microphone wire wasn't broken.
But the insulation had been worn through, and was touching the ground wire, shorting it out.
I looked at the other wires, and found the insulation on them was frayed or was worn through at the same spot as well.
I then looked at the wire strain relief.
Ahah!
Whomever did the assembly, used a pliers to get the strain relief on.
And they pinched the cable so hard in that spot, it damaged the insulation.
So, much for being an armored cable.
Also, there was no white strings in the cable to give it some strength.
Signed: Janitor Tzap