Samsung mp3 player keeps killing right earbud

[MrMatt]

Anyone ever have a Samsung YP-T9? Over the 4 years I've had it I've gone through probably 6 pairs of headphones, because every now and then the right earbud on the headphones will go dead, and nothing revives it. I'm starting to think it'd just be cheaper to get a new mp3 player.

 

[lxskllr]

You sure it isn't a physical issue? Perhaps the way you use it causes more strain on the right wire.

 

[MrMatt]

You sure it isn't a physical issue? Perhaps the way you use it causes more strain on the right wire.

I don't think I do anything weird with it...I usually clip the player to the waistband of my shorts on the right side, so it's not stretched. Mechanically the wires look fine. usually when the earbud blows it's not stretching or anything. I'll just be sitting there and it goes dead.

 

[DesiPower]

stop buying cheap Korean crap?

 

[lxskllr]

Weird... I don't use headphones often, and it's usually a different pair of cheapies each time(depends on what I find when I'm looking), but I've never had an issue like that.

 

[Tea Bag]

EDIT: If you plug in a new pair every time the right side starts working? I find it interesting that it would blow that side out every time. I'm on my second pair of el cheapo earhook ones and it's definitely from the wires getting caught or whatever.

 

[MrMatt]

EDIT: If you plug in a new pair every time the right side starts working? I find it interesting that it would blow that side out every time. I'm on my second pair of el cheapo earhook ones and it's definitely from the wires getting caught or whatever.

Yup. I go buy a new pair of headphones, and they work fine for about 9 months or so and then one day the right ear bud just goes dead. The player itself is weird. I have to spin the headphone jack around a little bit in the port to get both earbuds to play at the same volume, it's like tuning a radio almost..But even then the chord isn't twisting that much