Another One Bites the Dust
After my last headphone debacle, I decided that I definitely had to find some headphones that could at least stay in my ear. I stumbled upon some reasonably cheap (somewhere between $10 - $20) headphones at the University Center at CMU:
These headphones were actually highly desirable for many reasons:
- The clips make sure that they don’t fall out of my ears.
- They’re comfortable.
- The clips double as something that I can gnaw on to satiate my oral fixation without destroying the cords.
- There’s a slider on the headphones so you can cinch the separate wires together, avoiding entanglement (which rocks).
- They’re black with random silver detailing, which I like.
But five months after my purchase, they’re dead. No noise coming out of either ear. Completely kaput. And I just think that’s ridiculous! Laura has had the same headphones for longer, and hers still work. Am I doing something wrong? I haven’t been chewing on the wires (at least, not as often). Maybe I’m pulling them too tightly when I cinch the wires together? Or maybe wrapping them around my iPod isn’t good for them?
So readers, give me your advice. Do I need to get fancy headphones that I can’t chew on? Wireless, perhaps! Or was this a fluke, and should I just get another pair from the University Center? Or maybe I should just be banned from headphones all together as a bad patron.
buy a new pair from the university store, put your old ones in the box, return them.
The store will RMA them to the company, who will write them off on the taxes. So if anything, you are depriving every single American citizen about $0.00000000005.
They can handle it.
Comment by jason — March 30, 2006 @ 1:02 pm
That feels so dirty. Interesting. But dirty.
Comment by zaiss — March 30, 2006 @ 1:07 pm
Wrapping them around your iPod is probably not the best way to maintain them. I’m not saying that is your problem, but I used wrap the cords for my Nintendo controllers around the controllers and the tension eventually disconnected the wires from the circuit boards.
And I want my $0.00000000005 back.
Comment by Eric — March 30, 2006 @ 4:54 pm
I’ll give you a penny, but I expect change.
Comment by zaiss — March 30, 2006 @ 4:55 pm
Why can’t we all use speakers? We need some iCubes in here!
Comment by Jenn — March 31, 2006 @ 3:11 pm