The Batlord

The left speaker is going in and out, and it's got to the point that it's almost impossible to get it to work. Fiddling with the cord going from the right speaker into the actual computer jack can get it to work, but it's getting harder and harder to fix it. Now I've got it kind of working but the left speaker is clearly at about half-volume.

I'm sure there's a ****ed up wire in the cord (not the one going from the left speaker to the right, just the one going from the right to the computer jack), and I'm wondering if there's some kind of ghetto way to jury rig it. I can kind of see somewhere near the end of the jack (where it goes into the computer) that looks like it's kind of squeezed in, and fiddling with that end seems to have the best (only) results. I know nothing about stripping wires and fixing stuff that way, and I can't even be sure I have a soldering iron. Is it easy and worth it to try?

I know whatever I do, I'm probably gonna just have to replace the cord itself at some point, but I'd like to put this off as long as possible. As ghetto as the speakers are, they've got some good volume, and hella bass, and I suspect getting new ones that have the same "quality" would be kinda hard, so fixing/getting a new cord would probably be preferable. Most computer speakers are just pieces of ****; I think I just kind of lucked out with some decent ones.

Is it worth it to try to fix it, or go to Radioshack? Or should I just admit defeat and get new speakers, praying they don't suck?

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