# Longevity of headphones?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longevity-of-headphones/674618>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 23, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longevity-of-headphones/674618 "2013-11-23T14:29:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longevity-of-headphones/674618/21 "2013-11-29T00:28:09Z")

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There’s a model of $30 Sony headphones that I really like, but they tend to stop working in one ear after about a year.

Then on the other hand the surprisingly decent earbuds that came with my original GameBoy in 1989 still work great.

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**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longevity-of-headphones/674618/22 "2013-11-29T04:15:11Z")

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My Sennheiser HD 470’s still sound great but the foam earcovers are disintegrating. I bought them about 13 years ago. The plastic headpiece broke once years ago but I epoxied it together and it has held for many years. I haven’t found any ear buds or smaller sets that sound as good. The one thing I don’t like is they are open field.

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**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longevity-of-headphones/674618/24 "2014-01-17T04:38:15Z")

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