Headphones where something is loose so one side keeps cutting out and when you do get them both working you have to stay absolutely still or it dies again. C/D

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Surely they can't expect me to do my job in these inhuman conditions?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Classic.

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Classic when you try to fix them and they work for a while then both channels stop working

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

If you're forcing us to take a side, I'll have to say classic as well.

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

just listen to mono recordings so you dont miss anything

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Mine are the same way right now and I think it's causing me back problems, so dud.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

> just listen to mono recordings so you dont miss anything

Intriguing, but it doesn't take into account my cubemate's monstrously shitty smooth jazz station and refusal to wear headphones to listen to it.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Most irritating scenario: it doesn't take into account '60s oldies station where you only hear half the record because of primitive '60s stereo splitting.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Classic if you're listening at bedtime or paralyzed from the neck down.

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

This is the aural equivalent of jiggling the handle. Dud.

― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's God way of telling you to buy that more expensive pair of headphones for a change

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ram a screwdriver into the eardrum of the off ear. Voila! Extra headphone longevity.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

ram it into your good ear - then the sound will be perfect stereo.

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I, uh, bought a pair of extra-cheapies at the nearest CVS. Now I am once again physically and psychologically isolated from my co-workers.

Hell yeah, this is a good thing. Especially since I am listening to Hank Mobley's "Workout" and as Marcello pointed out, that's just about the worst kind of thing to hear only one channel from.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm deaf in me right ear, I find that helps.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a pair of headphones where the music can be heard in both ears, but there's something broken inside one of them so that if I move around I'll hear this rattling noise of whatever broken part is inside it. I found out I couldn't jog with them for example. Very irritating, but I don't use them anymore anyway.

― Fryin' Berry, Buck Cherry (Bimble...), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, pull out the headphone plug a little, so you get mono sound. fixed!

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― TAO (daggerlee), Saturday, 17 June 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Being forced to listen to workmates' shitty radio all shift...major fucking dud. Pretty much the height of inconsideration in the workforce I reckon.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Saturday, 17 June 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

In all my Walkman experience, no matter which headphones I used, I got that same result. It must have been the actual socket where the headphones plugged in that was messed up. Not having the tools or the know-how to repair consumer electronics, I'll have to say dud.

Also, I have had my iPod nano since last October, and this hasn't happened yet (a new record). Score one for Apple!

― naus (Robert T), Saturday, 17 June 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Obviously dud, although a piece of tape will sometimes help you solve the problem.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 17 June 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Not as classic as the iPod that pauses the music whenever the headphones move in the headphone jack at all.

I bet people sometimes wonder why I'm walking down the street with my headphones on, muttering "DAMMIT!" every 20 seconds or so.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 18 June 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

this is the reason i have a pair of shure e4's. they come with a 2 year warranty...i've gotten 4 new pairs in the past year and a half. plus they sound really schweet!.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 18 June 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Dud, headphones can be expensive. . .

― Thomas Mehlt (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Sunday, 18 June 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I had that problem with my Koss Portapro and had to borrow my friend's Playstation headphones for a year, until I discovered recently that the Portapro has a LIFETIME warranty. I just got my repaired headphones this week.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Sunday, 18 June 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

CLASSIC! Makes you concentrate, zen-like, on pure stillness. Once, you've achieved that (15 minutes in, sometimes) you can really fixate on what you're listening to.

― matt the queeg (veal), Sunday, 18 June 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

makes me want to hang myself on that very headphones cable

― nique (nique), Sunday, 18 June 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

DUD

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 19 June 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

Most irritating scenario: it doesn't take into account '60s oldies station where you only hear half the record because of primitive '60s stereo splitting.

The lavatory at work has a single speaker up in the ceiling, and the oldies satellite radio channel they pipe in the building very often sounds REALLY strange due to this very effect.

i was standing at the john one day listening to the "musak" version of some early beatles song only to faintly hear john and paul in the background - when it dawned on me what was happening. Now it's always an amsuing trip to the boys' room, so I can hear a "half-song" while relieving myself

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

massive dud. but I buy cheap-ass $7 headphones so I don't really mind having to replace them every three or four months.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

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