Can’t take credit for this work-around as I got the info from this forum. I can’t seem to navigate back to the writer who posted prior to give credit where credit is due. However, I too fell victim to the broken Din connector at the end of the connection cable from the control pod (seems to be a common problem from what I read in the forum). I used the following fix which I had gotten from a prior individual's submission and can verify that it does indeed work:
Items needed: small sharp knife, soldering iron, electrical tape, and a 6 ft
keyboard/mouse extension cable (part # 26-149A, $15) from
Radio Shack
The Fix: Cut off the old Din connector from Klipsch cable and cut away a couple
inches of the outer covering to expose individual wires and and
surrounding outer braided silver grounding wire; twist the braided silver
wire together into one; strip a third of an inch or so from the ends of the
individual colored wires; cut the Radio Shack cable at the desired length
from the male end (end with the pins) and then repeat the process of
exposing and stripping the individual colored wires; the Radio Shack
cable also has a small central silver grounding wire; join the wires
using the scheme below and join the grounding wires to one another then
solder each connection to secure; next tape the connection in such a manner
to isolate the individual connections from each other and the grounding wires
Connection Scheme: RS Wire Color Klipsch Wire Color
yellow green
red orange
black brown
brown red
orange yellow
green black