How do you connect headphone wires together?

Question

I ripped the headphone's wire and I want to put them back together with electrical tape

Answer 1

Do you mean head phones or ear phones? I'll get back to you when you answer. Got ur e/m. Sorry, I'm the motorcycle sound guy. Headphones have a mic, where as ear phones only have speakers. Either way, if it is a stereo ear phone there should be 3 wires, one for each ch. and the common.
If you have both ends (cable torn in half) it is a simple matter of hooking them up as they are color coded. Both the wire color and the insulating jacket will be coded (one conductor will be copper colored and the other will be silver). The common may be a coaxial shield covering the pair of wires or may be a single separate wire and should be covered with a black insulation or may be just a bare copper wire. The jackets may be one red and one white or some other system to tell them apart (some use slate and slate with a black stripe). Generally, red is right ear and white is the left, same code as is used on the RCA audio jacks on the back of VCR's and TV's etc. Just twist the matching ends together and if you can't solder them, fold the twist back over one side and tape it off. Do the same with the other two ends and then wrap the tape around both of them (you don't have to try and just wrap tape around the second wire as you have all ready "insulated" the first from the rest). Tie off the ground or common wire and wrap tape over the whole splice and, though not as good as a soldered and shrink wrapped job, it will do in a pinch.

Answer 2

Shrink tubing is the way to go. The headphone wire will be either of two types: two parallel wires, or coaxial. Parallel wires are far easier to fix; you will need two sizes of shrink tubing: one to fit over a single conductor, and a larger one to fit over the entire wire. Separate the wires for about 4 inches on each end, and trim them such that the splices will not overlap but be separated by about two inches. Put a large 5" piece of shrink tube on one pair, and short pieces on the longer end of each conductor. Strip and solder the wires, slide the small shrink tubing over the joints, and flame them. Then slide the large shrink tubing over the whole thing and flame it, and you're done.

Coaxial cables are much more difficult. The same general approach applies, but will be more difficult to carry out.

Answer 3

You have to soder the copper wires together, then tape it up with electrical tape or shrink wrap.