See I’ve had the opposite problem. Every single pair of wired headphones I’ve ever owned, except for my current pair, has failed when the wire had flexed too much. I suspect the current pair has lasted so long because I’ve almost entirely switched to wireless.
Some really expensive small ones I’ve used can fail after single digit hours of use (luckily work pays for those… and they’re willing to make that compromise for nearly invisible cables). I keep a box of a dozen new sets ready to go under my desk, they’re several hundred dollars each. We don’t allow the wearer to put them on or take them off - an assistant carefully does it and tapes the cable to their skin under their clothes to try to reduce the risk of failure.
Obviously there are wired headphones with thicker / stronger cables, but those come with serious comfort compromises which most people just are not willing to make. There are jobs where you need a wired pair. I work one of those jobs. For any other situation though, I think wireless is better, and I use wireless as much as I can.
I feel that. I have a pair of Shure SRH940s that are perfect in every way, except the material was so fragile, that the band split in half completely. I really need to get around to transplanting the internals of that…
@abhibeckert@ArtificialLink I’ve got many pairs of wired headphones, and I’ve had exactly one pair fail due to the wire. Most of them are still working, barring physically breaking apart.
See I’ve had the opposite problem. Every single pair of wired headphones I’ve ever owned, except for my current pair, has failed when the wire had flexed too much. I suspect the current pair has lasted so long because I’ve almost entirely switched to wireless.
Some really expensive small ones I’ve used can fail after single digit hours of use (luckily work pays for those… and they’re willing to make that compromise for nearly invisible cables). I keep a box of a dozen new sets ready to go under my desk, they’re several hundred dollars each. We don’t allow the wearer to put them on or take them off - an assistant carefully does it and tapes the cable to their skin under their clothes to try to reduce the risk of failure.
Obviously there are wired headphones with thicker / stronger cables, but those come with serious comfort compromises which most people just are not willing to make. There are jobs where you need a wired pair. I work one of those jobs. For any other situation though, I think wireless is better, and I use wireless as much as I can.
You can just buy headphones with a replaceable wire.
Every pair of headphones I currently own has a replaceable wire. It’s still a failure point.
I still don’t understand how the cable fails so often especially if they are multiple hundreds of dollars. What kind of work are you doing
I feel that. I have a pair of Shure SRH940s that are perfect in every way, except the material was so fragile, that the band split in half completely. I really need to get around to transplanting the internals of that…
@abhibeckert @ArtificialLink I’ve got many pairs of wired headphones, and I’ve had exactly one pair fail due to the wire. Most of them are still working, barring physically breaking apart.