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pianoplayer88key,
ummm.... It looks like you dropped them in the blender!
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Originally Posted by K_19 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
x2.
How on earth did you manage to get them that scratched and banged up?
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I guess it's what happens when they get tangled around sharp objects, for example bicycle gears (when I've temporarily taken them off so I can put my helmet on (and hung them over my shoulder but they fall off)), or I get up from the computer to go into the other room and forget that I'm wearing them, or walk away from the table where my music player is sitting with the IEMs plugged into them, and forget that the cable isn't 100' long, or someone trips over it, among other things...
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Originally Posted by Hsiu /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I miss the good old days when everything last so long. it seems like the durability of man made product decrease as number on calender increase (pyramid is like 3000 years old and last that long while manufacturers these days usually give shorter and shorter warranty period) compare to other, your breakage seem a bit extreme. please deal with warranty and treat earphone with more care
my current pair is my third replacement. all came to me super quick and I didn't have to pay a single cent to ship them back. be confident with Audeo's customer service
I also have issues with seal using silicon tip on top of the horrible walking sound when I walk with it. what I did to improve sealing is to place a de-cored medium comply foam (too bad you toss yours, you can wash it and use for this mod) behind the silicon tip so the foam will keep the silicon in place in your ear. it get perfect seal and never fall out of my ear this way. the seal is so good and create vacuum when I try to pull it out. I only use silicon if I sit in front of table, else foam is my choice (Comply or Olive)
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Actually my usage is what I would consider normal. Do I really need military-grade IEMs?
Also I didn't know the foam tips that came with the PFEs could be washed... otherwise I would have kept them because I liked them. And cleaning out my ears probably wouldn't hurt, either.
(Maybe that's why I've temporarily lost the ability to hear below 30-40 Hz - normally I can hear down to 6 or 8 or so, lower if it's not a sine wave. (Of course my ability to discern a musical tone goes south below about 16 Hz.))
I hear there's a new material / batch coming soon. How soon, actually, and when the time comes what would I need to do to exchange mine? (My box is probably in such bad shape that even the original manufacturer of the naturally-occurring raw materials that went into what made the box probably wouldn't even recognize it.)
And yes I miss those good old days too.
I have some things from the 1980s and older that are still working just fine (and even from the 1950s), but for things I've bought within the last 10 years or so I've gone through several generations. The only reason I have ever replaced anything in my lifetime that I can remember is because it wore out or broke, not because it was extremely obsolete AND I wanted something new that could do something that my old product wasn't capable of. Although, I should mention that I have gotten some new things when the old wasn't broken, but kept the old because the new product, while it had many features the old product didn't have, actually lacked some functionality of what it would have replaced.