Headphones with detachable cord?

randomchild

Hey lads after breaking my sennheiser's for the umpteenth time, sick of sending them in for repair. What keeps happening is that the wire keeps breaking at the point they enter the ear piece. Thus I have decided to go for a pair with a detachable cable. I wear them out quite a lot and I listen to broad range of music, folk, drum and bass, house, rap, techno, metal etc. I want to spend around a hundred squid but could be tempted to reach for 150 if its worth it . Can anyone point me in the right direction?

yimrsg

You don't mention what type you want, open or closed; around or on ear. Or what model you had previously. If it was breaking constantly at the entry to the housing then there maybe something to do with the way you store them. Most of the times I've broken my head/earphones have been at the audio jack.

http://www.thomann.de/gb/superlux_hd668_b.htm
review here
http://www.head-fi.org/products/superlux-hd-668-b

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog_v2.cgi?id=27277&type=product
I have these and to be honest they're nothing special, I use them for playing xbox live as they have a handy volume control as I use a monitor with vga output and no speakers.

I think the sennheiser hd 25 has removable cable but you'd have to check carefully as there are several models in the series.
There are probably more if you search head-fi.org but I can't think of any of the top of my head.

Panasonic's RP-HJE900 Zirconia Audiophile In-Ear Headphones have removable and replaceable wire cords. 99bucks on jandr.com . there are not many earphones (in-ear ones in any case) that come with detatchable cords, certainly no cheap ones that I know of. also you may find that the replacement wires may not be easily available.

however as the other poster said you are probably breaking them because you are wrapping them and storing them incorrectly.

this is how to wrap earphones, not around your player for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXcNzxAB00

and if you are putting them in your pocket pun them in a soft protective pouch.
I used to go through earphones, both cheap and not cheap at a rate of knots but since doing these 2 simple steps nothing has broken on me.

randomchild

I had a pair of Sennheiser HD 202 II Closed Back On-ear headphones previously, would prefer to stay with a similar style. Those superlux sound good though!

Greenman

randomchild wrote: »

I had a pair of Sennheiser HD 202 II Closed Back On-ear headphones previously, would prefer to stay with a similar style. Those superlux sound good though!

What about these. Beyer Dynamic DT 150



As you can see the cord is detachable at the side.

I have the DT 100's, bought them in 1983:) and they are still working fine, if you buy watch which ohm version you choose.

A great plus re the Beyer Dynamic headphones, you can buy any of the parts separately:)

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