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Has anyone here have their headphones' rubber pieces fall apart and detach from the white plastic parts?
I've been really careful with my headphones, and already on my second pair, but for some reason the rubber parts fall apart and deteriorate. Has anyone else had this happen?
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Yes. Both of them. But I put them through the washer-dryer and run with them. The eartips for the ear canals can come off if the ear-bud is forcibly and suddenly jerk out of your ear, but you just put them back on. For my new ones, the silicone ear tips can slip off if you sit up and the headphone wire gets stuck on something. The rubber gasket beneath the driver housing came off my old ones, but that was some time after putting them through the wash. My new ones are fine.
I've tried quite a few in-ear headphones (Shure, Maximo iMetal, Etymotics, etc, foam, rubber) and I like the Apple ones the best. It's not the sound quality, as I really wouldn't be able to tell. It's that they are soft and comfortable in the ear. Others get painful for awhile.
I've tried quite a few in-ear headphones (Shure, Maximo iMetal, Etymotics, etc, foam, rubber) and I like the Apple ones the best. It's not the sound quality, as I really wouldn't be able to tell. It's that they are soft and comfortable in the ear. Others get painful for awhile.
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Did you mean the rubber part that connects to the cable from the plastic housing of the drivers? Then yes, happened to me. Went into an Apple store to ask about it, and they gave me a new one. :-)
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