Headphones

Use a hairdryer to remove any water ❌ Use the microwave who never ever removes water ✅

I think you need to just accept this as a $20 lesson to never put electronics in a microwave

microwaved my IEMs

The driver tore off in a somewhat audible boom

right one doesn't work

is this recoverable guys?

This is why shampoo comes with instructions.

Jesus can't save you bruh lmaoo

Definitely were supposed to use the air fryer. Not the microwave.

What school do you go to? You should ask for a refund.

What a fucking idiot.

Sorry, don't believe the "non troll post" unless intoxicated.

Good, buy some cheap speakers and save your hearing till you get a proper income to buy proper headphones. $20 iems are a waste of hearing

you WHAT

This reminds me of the one time I put my wireless earbuds in the ultrasonic cleaner. I guessed the distilled water is not conductive and won't break them. I was wrong.

Rookie mistake. You gotta put them under the broiler on high heat for 45 minutes now

There’s still some time to delete this.

Are you in the US? I may have an extra set of IEMs kicking around.

Go work for a couple of hours and buy some new ones. It'll save you a tremendous amount of time and energy and hell if you work a few more hours you might get something even better!

I thought just 2-3 seconds of microwaving wouldn't do anything

Dude.

I think you missed something here. Do you know if you put a tiny water drop in the microwave and it'll never heat up? It's too small compared to the wavelength so it won't work. So even if the microwave wouldn't damage your IEM, this method wouldn't remove the water either.

A good solution is to put it in a sealed box with anything moist absorbing substance, like silicone gell or calcium oxide. Because the relative humidity of the surrounding air is going low, the water in the IEM would eventually evaporate.

This is like the smartest dumbest thing I’ve ever read. like there’s good logic in what you’re saying, and I can see myself doing it too if I had the same knowledge you do. It’s like I know that the microwave is scary magic heat box that hates metal and magnets, so I don’t microwave my IEMs. Someone with more expertise understands how it functions and the risks involved so doesn’t microwave their IEMs. But you know just enough to make a mistake like this. It’s past the bit where you’re scared because of ignorance, but before you get to the bit where you can be justified in confidence

Maybe try putting it in rice /s

Yea, I suspect those issues aren't covered by your warranty. Some lessons are expensive to learn.

At least ur cable is fine, it's responsible for most of the sound anyways

This is the dumbest idea I've seen in months.

I'm still a student

Gonna take a guess and say you're not studying physics.

This is one of the greatest posts of all time

For a dirt cheap set of earbuds I would not waste my time

I’m guessing this is a troll post….but silica gel packs probably would have worked. Or rice. Or opening the backplate…..

My only advice is. Stay in school. Don’t do drugs.

Ehh , I know just the thing ! Get a hold of Doc Emit Browns DeLorean and go back 30 seconds before you decide to Nuke your IEMs, Eureka 😇

lmao. My guy... I'd say they're fuckered.

Next time you wash, soak or whatever any electronics, if rice doesn't do it, try cat litter or those moister absorbing things for cars/closets.

Life lesson learned. I hope. Time to buy some cheap Skull Candy earbuds from the supermarket "tech" isle and make do.

Please, say no to drugs

Rice…. Dehumidifier…. Buy new ones….

the "bad things don't happen to me" mindset is so stupid

It seems like everyone on reddit is getting lost and posting in the wrong subreddits lol did you mean to post this on r-slash-stims?

So you thought the microwave would just "slightly" microwave them for 2-3 seconds before it "really" would microwave them?

You know how it looks like when you put a metal fork in a microwave, right? What do you think IEM drivers are made of?

But microwave was fine?

So this is the first option that came to mind and not dry them under the sun? lol

LMAO.

I remember something like this happening once before, to a GPU:

https://hardforum.com/threads/i-microwaved-a-r9-390x-gaming-and-now-my-pc-wont-run-after-3rd-time.2009782/

Don't microwave electronics. You'll energize the circuitry and fry everything.

Silica gel? Gentle heating? Where did those steps go 😭

r/haveyoutriedrice

I admire your enthusiasm.

OP fucked around and found out lol

RICE, that's the literal use case for putting it in RICE

that's it you're permabanned!

Welcome to dumbmofo.com

but I'm still a student

I'd say stay in school kids, but maybe school isn't for everyone.

This is truly a Reddit Moment™️

Lol jfc mate they sell hearing aid (or iem) driers/dehumidifiers

At least the hola is one of the lowest priced iems I've ever seen.

Hope ya learned a lesson there lol, thanks for sharing

Whats your major lol, hope its not a STEM degree :P

just kidding, we all make stupid decisions. I dropped a $4000 iem..astell and Kern tried to charge me $1900 to fix one earbud 😭😭

Long story short i was high and dancing as i went to go take a piss (on a tile floor before i knew how easy it is to crack resin shells) and ripped opened the door which caught the cable and ripped it out of my ear lol.

Most expensive drop I've had and they literally sent it back to me glued shottily after the RMA/$1000 repair Still fighting that and sending it back again soon.

F

It could be worse m8

Thanks for sharing as I was going to microwave my Sennheiser HE-1 to lower the humidity in the earcups.

I feel I have to ask: Do you happen to be US American?

1. Please video tape your future experiments.

2. IEM = hearing aid technology

Get a hearing aid dehumidifier… borrow one from a senior citizen over night.