Beyerdynamic Lagoon ANC teardown (and repair)

I fixed my headphones and here is what I found

My headphones behaved weirdly, like a button was stuck. My first instinct was to look online to find information about how to open them up, but I found nothing. So here is what I learned while taking my Beyerdynamic Lagoon ANC headphones apart. Note: I have only taken apart the right side with the control pads.

1. Opening up the ear cups

This step is fairly straight forward: loosen up the six clips behind the ear pads. Caution, I broke my ear cups a bit while doing that. I recommend getting a pair of picks for that task. One to loosen the clip and one to slide between the pad and the rest of the cup to prevent the clips from slipping back into place.

Image of the headphones with one pick inside the ear pad and one between the ear cup and ear pad

Image 1: stabbed headphones.

Note: the ear pads have a little notch that only fits into the ear cups in one way. See image 2.

2. Disconnecting the speaker

After removing the ear cups, there are four Phillips screws.

Image of the headphones with one of the ear pads removed. The removed ear pad is laying next to it. There are four Phillips screws marked with a circle in the speaker

Image 2: screws of $SIZE, I touch computers, not hardware.

To take out the speaker, loosen the screws and then carefully take it out. The speaker is connected with a ribbon cable, be careful, see image 3 and 4.

Image of the headphones with the speaker half taken out but still attached with a ribbon cable

Image 3: ribbon cables are annoying.

Image of the back of the speaker with the port of the ribbon cable marked

Image 4: funny speaker testpoints.

3. Take out the input board

The input board is held in place with two Phillips screws of the same size as the other ones. Disconnect the ribbon cable that connects the board to the main PCB and carefully take it out. While doing that, watch out with the two buttons while taking it out or putting it back in, they are sitting loosely in the ear cups once the speaker is taken out.

Main PCB and daughter board on the inside of the ear cup. The ribbon cable, two screws and loose buttons on the daughter board are marked.

Image 5: one of these switches is broken in this image…

The daughter board with an USB-C port, headphone jack and two SIP switches.

Image 6: I still have a headphone jack, luxury.

I managed to fix my issue with a bit of contact cleaner and soldering after I broke a piece while reassembling the headphones. Be extra careful while putting the buttons back while reassembling the headphones. They have to properly align with the SMD SIP switches.

Thanks to cpresser for helping me to get started with the disassembly and nick and hcsch for proofreading this ^-^/