Talon V, I feel your pain. Recently I've had a spate of rotten luck with earphones. It started when I decided to upgrade from my trashy Apple earphones that never quite fit to attach my trusty Shure e3c in-ear headphones to the old iPhone, which of course uses a proprietary adapter. So, I bought their music phone adapter, solving the problem at the expense of the longest and most unwieldy cable I've ever seen. Bundling that in my pockets must have caused a lot of stress because it wasn't long before the adapter started crackling, then cutting out completely. Next up were the Apple in-ear headphones: cheap, stylish in that distinctly Apple way, and with a volume control on the cord! It turns out that the volume control doesn't actually work on the iPhone, which was annoying, but a few months later those earphones went for a walk and never came back. I secretly hope that I will turn my apartment upside-down one day and expose them, but deep down I know they're gone for good. After that I evaluated the options and settled on the Etymotic hf2 earphones, having used and enjoyed the their ER6i earphones before; they are the kind of devices that cause you to blissfully get run over by a bus. They looked and sounded wonderful, and I was very pleased with them, but that past tense already alludes to their fate. Only a few months after buying them (at great expense) they too developed a crackling sound, which I pointedly ignored for two weeks, and then just stopped. I'll try getting them replaced but if they don't build the connection as well as the drivers then it's clearly not a good idea to buy another set. Meanwhile, my Shure headphones literally fell apart. I think supergluing them again might be a bad idea. And that leaves me with the original Apple headphones—in which the clicker/mic has simply stopped working. Sophie alluded to a speedboat below. The junk boat trailed a speedboat for wakeboarding and for towing a 'banana boat': an inflatable, slippery plastic watercraft designed specifically to be unstable. The three people trying to balance in the wake of a speedboat had better be good friends with the driver! My group spent more time just trying to climb on to the boat than riding it. 1658 2009-05-18T15:26:38Z

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