Ironbuds - indestructable earbuds?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendary/earbuds-time-to-change-the-status-quo

Apparently someone's trying to design an extremely modular, almost indestructible pair of headphones. gratuitous connectors aside, some aspects of the design are interesting - almost all the cables are easily replaceable, its designed in sections (and there's nothing stopping someone from offering a less complicated headphone cable), and its reinforced. I'm not totally sold on the way they split the cable (granted, its perfect for someone who wanted to DIY a bi-ended cable).

And its funded on kickstarter - which is a pretty interesting way to find projects like this - it only goes ahead if they make enough funds, which, if some small amp designer wanted to build a amp en mass, and needed funding, would work pretty well.

I'm sure someone's going to complain about the sheer number of connectors, but, its still a cool project - considering most earbuds i've owned have either gone at the earbud end, or at the joint, its probably the most robust way to do it.

 

@dabomb : That's the advantage with kickstarter - they can get the funding they need to mass produce it with a production partner who can produce it en mass, and actual production would be by someone else . The guy who designed this seems to have worked with Henry Kloss according to the kick starter site. Besides, don't tell me there's no small boutique gear people use, and somehow being new or small is going to mean its going to be crap.

As for the cables, There's nothing stopping someone from grabbing a pair of 2mm connectors and making their own cables (i mean, who dosen't replace cables at some point?) - one of the main design considerations for this seems to be to make it as tough as possible - the overengineered Y split, and the connectors they have chosen tend to be a lot harder to break than say, your typical 'pin' type IEM connectors - if anything breaks, its just that section that gets replaced. The design they've chosen seems to be built around robustness first - proper connectors as opposed to pins, and as much modularity as possible, and the parts that seem bulky are what tend to break most often - if i was cabling a bi-ended headphone, without fancy parts,  and absolutely did not want it to break, that's how i'd do it.

@deadsea: cables break more often than connectors - and you can replace just the section that broke

as for sound quality, not enough information to really decide - if i get a pair i'll probably post a review on what i think ^^