I hate modern product quality!
Beware, long rant...
I bought my headphones about two and a half years ago because they were the only ones to convince me regarding sound balance and quality by not being bass-centered with poor heights - and I could afford them (especially because they stopped producing them and the store put them on discount)!
It was a dream come true. Ironically, even very expensive ones didn't have the balance I would have expected and felt off.
These have a good scale of frequencies covered and are from a company I have made good experiences with throughout my life, so basically childhood years and teens.
Well, the emphasis is on
made.
All this ended with these headphones. The casing is a catastrophy. They seemed solid and comfortable at first, but it turns out a fair share of it was just glued. They are supposedly suited and made for outdoor use - I only use them indoors for my PC and literally often just touched them with my finger tips. I didn't throw them around, I didn't do anything odd with them either. Yet they started falling apart revealing the padding inside. What. The. Heck.
On top of that, it turns out my TV (same brand, but a bit older by now) has some HDMI issues that (when connecting my PC to it) causes short screen blackouts and sometimes also audio stops for a second up to a few. This is an issue that is not being addressed and fixed with software updates, it's an issue with HDCP as far as I can tell and some quick internet research revealed that many other TVs by them have the same problem. The whole point in connecting my PC to the TV was so I could enjoy some gaming or online videos or tv media centers on it, it basically defeats that purpose.
My trust in this company is forever broken and I doubt I will buy something with their brand on it again, just like I will never buy a Microsoft input device anymore after this wireless Xbox360 gamepad (also under the assumption "because the product quality was superb in the past"). I'm angered because I know that I can't tape these headphones forever and the increasing amount of bad experiences with products on the market don't make me want to go out and search for years for new headphones. Yes. I was searching for ones I would be happy with for
years.
If they break for good and can't fix them, I'll just go back to those rock hard soviet headphones we have - they might not have the same scale of frequencies, but they have a proper balance and still work flawlessly!
Why must it be so hard to find a product that will last and have good quality? I hate this money-making trend...
It's cliche to say, but they don't make things like they used to. Consumer goods, and consumer electronics in particular, are so disposable nowadays it's appalling. They may claim to make things more eco-friendly or whatever, but in all actuality constantly producing goods that will wear out and be thrown out in a few years is much worse for the environment than just building something that can and will last for decades. I understand that the march of technological progress is partly to blame for this, but so are the motives of coroporate executives. Companies nowadays WANT you to constantly be throwing out old devices and buying new ones so that they can have a steady source of revenue.
Maybe once some global catastrophe happens, people will once again understand why it's good to have things that are built to last. I bet you're still going to be seeing cars from the 50s in working condition 20 years from now, even if we're out of fossil fuels to power them with. Cars from the 2000s or 2010s on the other hand, probably not.