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Title: Shoddy construction outweighs decent sound
Review: I purchased these headphones to use with an iPod. I am often in noisy environments and found that the standard iPod earbuds let through too much ambient noise, so that I had to turn up the volume to potentially damaging levels to hear. The Etymotics, properly inserted, both sounded good and substantially reduced the ambient noise.HOWEVER, their construction is poor. I have had 3 pairs - the first I purchased, the second were a warranty replacement after the first pair broke, and the third pair were purchased after the second pair also broke. Now the third pair has also broken. In each case, the wires attached to the 3.5mm audio plug loosened so that one channel of audio was lost. I see other reviewers have had the same problem. With all of them, the shirt clip broke as well.
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