Something I learned today:
Be careful if you decide to fix a floating speaker in your headset, otherwise you might do what I do and break off one of the cables off the speaker, disabling sound from the right side.
Oh well, it was a $20 Microsoft Lifechat headset I owned for several years, it was on its way out.
Bought a new headset. The same model because hey, it worked fine, why change it up?