First off, sorry about the Silver Dragons. I have those. Not that great for the money, and even with careful handling the insulator cracks and there goes your cable. Their customer service is beyond crap.
But we deal the hand we're dealt. Hot wire into the phones. Totally. You can buy a real nice soldering station, quality solder and flux, heat shrink electric wrap and hot glue gun (or rubber grommets, your call) for a lot less than $380.
You don't need flux, but when you see how nice the solder flows with it you will be happy you got it. You don't need a fancy soldering station but when you try and solder a really thin wire and are able to adjust the temp to where it doesn't melt the whole wire you will be glad you got that too.
There'll be a learning curve but then when you're done check it out, you've acquired a skill. I assume of course you are already adept at the skill of swiping the credit card, spending money, etc and have no real further need of development in these areas. So go forth and solder!
But we deal the hand we're dealt. Hot wire into the phones. Totally. You can buy a real nice soldering station, quality solder and flux, heat shrink electric wrap and hot glue gun (or rubber grommets, your call) for a lot less than $380.
You don't need flux, but when you see how nice the solder flows with it you will be happy you got it. You don't need a fancy soldering station but when you try and solder a really thin wire and are able to adjust the temp to where it doesn't melt the whole wire you will be glad you got that too.
There'll be a learning curve but then when you're done check it out, you've acquired a skill. I assume of course you are already adept at the skill of swiping the credit card, spending money, etc and have no real further need of development in these areas. So go forth and solder!