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Title: Cord breaks at plug end
Review: These headphones worked well for me for a few months of occasional use - comfortable, lightweight, decent sound performance. I thought I had done well in the hours of research that went into choosing this inexpensive model.However, yesterday the sound became crackly, and I realized they were broken. There is a weak point in the design: the place where the cable meets the audio plug can take a lot of abuse simply by being in your pocket. The cable is very fragile, and with all the twisting and bending it eventually [rather quickly] wears out and breaks. They're now unusable.The headphones would be wonderful if they were engineered with a right-angle 3.5mm plug, so the cable itself wouldn't be absorbing all the shock against the plug.For most users, I'd avoid this model. Advice: always buy headphones with a right-angle plug. See here for example (though I've never used these):[...]
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