Baker Boy said:
Yep I'm a CX300 man. Over the head earphones are for folk who want to look cool, I just want to listen to my tunes. You also get a neat little pouch to pop them in before bunging them in your pocket.
I'm with John, surely it's the other way around. People who wear full headphones look ridiculous. I know I do. But a well chosen pair will always sound better than ear buds (unless you spend silly money and get a pair moulded to your ear), and be far more comfortable.
Anyway, the wires are always a huge issue. Inside the cable are about thirty minuscule fibres, and some fluff holding it together. The cables are this way because people want light, comfortable designs, but you couldn't come up with a much better design if you wanted to prevent people from fixing them easily.
Even so, it's not the cable that's the problem, as much as it is the area where the cable meets the connectors. These create stress points; the cable rubs up against the edge of the connector or where the cable enters the earphone. Either the insulation breaks (quick, tape it up, before the strands fray in seconds flat), or the insulation holds (but it frays internally, no repair possible).
Probably worse is when the cable is pulled taught, and all that force is either exerted over that same tiny area at the back of the connector, or directly onto the tiny connection to the earphone.
But yeah, I've lost a few this way. Best idea is to check the design out; the rear ends of the connection to the jack and the headphone itself should be a bit flexible. And one cable is better than two thinner ones.
I don't ever wrap mine around the player, so I wouldn't really be able to say if that's what's causing your problem, but it is usually regarded as "a bad idea" to do this with any sort of cable. Forget what other people do, maybe they are just lucky, sit very still, or have cans with strong cables.
