2 posts tagged “shure”
I'm a little tired of headphones breaking. With daily use and sitting in pockets, the constant cable flexing and reaction with skin oils, it all attributes to broken cables. I owned a pair of Shure E2C headphones which broke sometime last year due to constant flexing, and my upgraded Shure SE310's broke just before the beginning of the new year as the rubber housing stiffened and cracked. That's just how headphones go, they break, but thank goodness for Shure's excellent warranty program as I received my replacement headphones in a week.
Tired of shipping them in, I decided on a little mod that will hopefully prolong the life of this current pair. The goal is to prevent cable crinkling and also to avoid contact with skin oils. For this, we need braided cable sleeves, heat shrink tubing, heat source (heatgun or lighter).
My Shure E2C earphones were broken for quite some time, the left earphone would cut out all the time and I had to hold the cable just right to get any sound out of them. Amazing sound... crystal clear and completely isolated any background sound, perfect for frequent traveling on the subway. Be as it may, it's pretty useless to have great sound pumping from my iPod into just one ear so I brought them to the retailer to get them replaced.
BTW, Shure's warranty program is awesome. Just bring them to the retailer within two years and get a replacement. The E2C's were last years model and I decided to pay a bit extra to do an upgrade to the next model up, the SE310. Cosmetically, this year's lineup looks a lot better and are more functional. The older ones were actually pretty ugly, some of it looked like it was rigged in somebody's garage. The new lineup also has a much better bass response which was always a little weak on the older ones. The sets of earplugs are better too. There are 7 pairs (mine came with an extra pair) of different shaped plugs to fit your ears. The new foam ones are a nice comfortable fit and provides the best sound quality.
