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I used to think that Skullcandy was the best on the market. Premium sound, and excellent material quality. Well, it actually looks like they have taken the path that so many companies do... crappy materials and poor manufacturing. To save a few bucks and to make a bigger profit margin, Skullcandy uses a very cheap plastic that does not stand up to the rigors of taking on and off your headset. They know it, too. They do testing. Not to assure the consumers of quality and workmanship, but to figure out how long they'll last so they can set their expectations of replacements and warranty limit to further escape the shoddy quality. I had these for nearly 3 months and in the normal course of putting on the headphones, the left earphone broke away from the headband in an irreparable way. I had already noticed, in the last few days or so, an ever widening crack in the right earphone happening, and I thought, when the earphone came off in my hand, that I had put them on backwards, and it was that side that had broken off. I was wrong. It was the plastic hinge that broke. When will manufacturers and engineers ever learn, plastic hinges are NOT durable and will always eventually, inevitably fail. Planned obsolescence I guess... keep them buying... Dammit, I'm mad! I should be offered a full refund for a manufacturing defect, because they cannot seriously think that these parts are solid.