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Help! I've had 2 earphones break down in the past week

post #1 of 5
11/20/09 at 5:55pm
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About 6 weeks ago after I lost my ipod earbuds I bought some Griffin earthumps. I didn't like the feel of them very much so 2 weeks later I got a pair of Yuin pk3, which I liked, until last week when the right earphone started having major trouble working, then soon stopped working at all. I shipped it back and in the meantime was using the Griffin earphones, which worked fine until yesterday when the left earphone wouldn't work at all. I don't know what's going on, I don't recall having exposed either of them to moisture (except perhaps when I worked out with the Griffin phones once, a few days before they stopped working). Has anyone else's earphones just failed like this? I don't really know what to do now.
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post #2 of 5
11/20/09 at 6:42pm
..Are you sure you're handling them properly? (not throwing them around or whatnot)?
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post #3 of 5
11/20/09 at 6:49pm
If you wrap your earphone cables around your MP3 player and then stuff it all in your trousers pocket, like my boys do, then I give even the best earphones about 1 or 2 months before they start breaking from wire bending and stress. Both my boys have to buy themselves a new set of CX300 (they don't know about sound quality yet!!) about every 2-3 months.

It's tedious, but every time I use my earphones (sometimes, 2 or 3 times a day) I coil my earphones around 3 fingers and put them into a soft pouch that goes into a bigger pouch that holds my eaphones and Zune. I'm going on 2 years with my Zune, and six months on my RE0 earphones, with no signs of stress on them.
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post #4 of 5
11/21/09 at 3:28am
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Originally Posted by Halftrack View Post
..Are you sure you're handling them properly? (not throwing them around or whatnot)?
That might be it, I usually drop my earphones on my desk when I get home, and dangle them on my jacket when I'm walking around. For storing them, I would wrap most around three fingers, and wrap the rest around that coil to secure it.

I guess wires/ earphones are much more fragile than I had assumed? Do I really have to store them in a separate case?
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post #5 of 5
11/22/09 at 12:32pm
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Originally Posted by sgcyrus View Post
I guess wires/ earphones are much more fragile than I had assumed? Do I really have to store them in a separate case?
Well they are small expensive pieces of audio equipment. You wanna take care of them so they work properly for a long time.

I use to toss my IEMs and headphones around, plop them down where ever, tangled, twisted, and tugged at the cords.
Most wouldn't last more than 1 month b/c I treated them like ****.

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