$14.95 Inc GST
The lead is always what fails first. The drivers are fine, the headband is fine, the padding has years left in it — and one channel has gone quiet because the thin bit of copper near the plug has been folded around a bag strap four hundred times. A beats headset cord costs fifteen dollars. A new set of Beats costs three hundred.
This is a 1.2 metre braided lead, 3.5mm male at both ends, with an in-line remote and microphone partway along it. It is the pattern Beats ships with the Apple-era sets — Studio, Solo, EP, Pro — and it does the same three jobs: carry the audio, carry your voice, and put a play button where your hand already is. If you have been searching for a beats remotetalk cable, this is the lead that does that job.
Four colours. Black, black and red, blue, red. The stock lead is black; if you have had the beats headphone cable out of the box and back in twice, a different colour is how you stop borrowing your flatmate’s by accident.
Braided nylon, not moulded rubber. Rubber leads take a set — they remember the shape of the coil you crammed into a jacket pocket and then crack along that fold. Braid does not hold a crease the same way, and the beats headphone wire that comes out of a bag straight is the one that lasts.
Every listing for a beats headphone cable in this category says “in-line remote and microphone” as though that is one feature. It is three, and only two of them travel.
The microphone works everywhere. So does the centre button — play, pause, skip, answer a call, hang up. Apple phone, Android phone, laptop, it does not matter.
The volume buttons are an Apple thing. Apple’s in-line control scheme uses a licensed chip that puts a tone on the microphone line. Android phones read button presses from resistance values instead. The two schemes do not translate, so on an Android handset the volume rocker on the lead will most likely do nothing and you will use the phone’s own buttons.
This is true of every beats remotetalk cable built to this pattern, ours included. It is a property of the standard, not a fault in the cable, and you would hit it with any beats headset cord from any seller. We would rather you knew before you ordered than after.
Because the remote sits on the lead, the two plugs are not interchangeable. One of them carries the microphone signal and that is the one that belongs in your phone or laptop; the other goes into the earcup. Get it backwards and the music still plays perfectly, which is exactly why people never work out what is wrong — the remote and the microphone simply sit there doing nothing. If yours is silent on calls, swap the ends before you do anything else.
Half the people buying a beats cable are not plugging it into a phone at all, because their phone no longer has the socket. The lead earns its keep on:
And it is not Beats-only. The plug is an ordinary 3.5mm at both ends, so a beats aux cable will fit a Sony, a Sennheiser, an Audio-Technica or a JBL set that takes a removable lead.
Some of the older Beats sets were never built around an in-line control. If yours is one of them, this lead still fits — the socket is the same — but you would be paying for a remote you cannot use. We stock a plain beats replacement cable without the in-line unit for exactly that case, and we would rather sell you the cheaper one.
A beats solo 4 cable is the same 3.5mm fitting as everything before it, which surprises people who assumed the newer models had gone USB-C only. They have both. If you want to listen while the battery is flat, or plug into something with no Bluetooth at all, the socket is still there and this lead is what goes in it.
Stocked in Melbourne, not drop-shipped from overseas. Order before 10am and your beats cable ships the same day via Australia Post with tracking and insurance, backed by our 90-day warranty and a team who will tell you when the plain lead is the better buy.
Stop nursing a dead channel. Order your beats headphone cable today.
Sources it plugs into: phones and tablets with a headphone socket, laptops, PlayStation and Xbox controllers, Nintendo Switch, in-flight entertainment armrests, audio interfaces and mixers.
The remote, honestly. The in-line unit has a microphone, a centre button and volume up and down.
Which end goes where matters. The remote lives on the lead, and the plug that carries the microphone signal has to be the one in your phone. Plug it in the other way round and the audio still plays but the remote and microphone do nothing. If yours is silent on the microphone, swap the ends before anything else.
Older Beats models. The site also stocks a plain replacement lead for earlier Beats sets. If your headphones predate the in-line remote there is nothing to gain from this one — the socket is the same 3.5mm, so this lead fits, but you would be paying for a remote your set was never built around.
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