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ziml77
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Wired headphone sales are exploding
Same here. Wired headphones never lasted anywhere near as long for me as wireless ones. Any with inline controls were especially prone to failure.
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asdff
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It depends on how you treat them. Some people burn through them like nothing. I have some 20 year old earpods still.
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skeeter2020
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or in my experience active use can damage the headphone jack, which is much, much worse
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eimrine
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LOL! Literally 5 minutes of soldering work. There is no even need to buy a new jack, just clean the old one from old resin.
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