Ironbuds - indestructable earbuds? - Page 2

Well, thats a sort of but not quite scenario isn't it. I've had a fair few pairs of earphone cables break on me, but it's always been at the jack there, never in the middle of the wires and those things have a heck of a lot of jacks. From my previous experiences at least, if it doesn't get flexed much, wires are pretty durable. But looking at the funding they've got, they have comvinced a good number of people that theirs is a good idea. Hope it works out for them.

Well I'm interested in the project. I paid the $47 for the audiophile set. I'm not expecting them to be mid-fi but for the price I don't think anyone should. Hopefully they sound decent which for the features would be a good bargain for people who go through cheapo B&M headphones like tissue.

Looks like a sales gimmick. Mechanical connectors are not as good as physical connections. I'll take solder over a jack any day.

A friend of mine is in a local band that gigs all over. Gear gets thrown in the back of pickups and driven from bar to bar.

It's always the jacks/connectors that break down. (Neutrik connectors seem to hold up quite well, though. There's been a lot of retrofitting.) Cables and the gear itself hold up pretty well. These just introduce a lot of unnecessary points of failure.

Of course, they should appeal quite well to those who like to play Barbie dress-up with gear.