Previously posted in mildly interesting a year ago, doesn’t qualify anymore: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18714104
Probably disintegrating, I don’t know. But now I’ll finally have to buy new ones. Currently there’s 6 oozing points in total. 3 are minor, one is now inactive (the 2024 pimple), one I taped over, but it’s starting to overflow, and one near the jack is major.
I now cannot plug them in without getting sticky residue everywhere. Also the rubber on the outside is starting to crumble a bit.
I am a cheapskate, but this may be their end.
Why would you still use them after the first day you knew this was happening?
I would try two things.
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heat gun the goo a little (get it up to like 150F or so) and see if it the sappy liquid runs and you can maybe clean it and drain it easier at temp
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get some shrink wrap to seal up the ends. That might help for a while if you can get it tight.
I’m not familiar with those headphones but sometimes manufacturers will put grease or goo inside the cables to reduce straining and folding of the wires.
It looks kinda like rosin in the photo. I wonder if something inside the device was saturated in rosin and its just leaking down the cable?
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It is the era of device
Get something newer as overtime the older rubber like materials tend to break down.
You Deal w ts for over a year???💀
Given that:
- The statue of Mother Mary cries;
- These earphones are weeping;
You are witnessing divine signals from heaven above, and can charge people money to make the holy trek to witness your hallowed earphones.
Wasn’t the weeping statue just sewage?
I don’t really appreciate your blasphemy
My bad, I had the wrong silly cult icon in kimd thrre… But I mean, if Jesus tears is sewage then what blasphemy?
Its Jesus’s earwax!
I gotta question.
Is badge502 on Lemmy?
Ah well. He’s been giffed.
I think cancer treatment will be more costly than a new pair of earbuds or whatever your next cheap accessory that is leaking unknown chemicals.
If it’s leaking from the inside, it may be that the polymer never properly cured and is still liquid on the interior. You could try returning it as defective, or just shell out for a new cable
Shell out he says
These look worse than knock off iphone 4 buds
Hot take: They’re IEMs, so they’re garbage nonetheless. For a proper soundstage, over ear open- or semi-open-backs are the only way to go.
That said, I understand the need for a smaller headphone if you just need something playing in your ears during exercise or at work, which is perfectly fine so long as you’re not making them your primary pair of headphones.
Few things trigger me more than seeing a game streamer using earbuds. You’re bypassing your pinna—so you’re not getting proper 3D audio—which is critical for competitive games these days!
Primary pair of headphones? I think we live in different worlds…
Headphones do not provide soundstage.
https://headphones.com/blogs/features/soundstage-is-much-more-complicated-than-you-think
Don’t toss your articles at me; I may not have phrased my comment the way you wanted me to (due to ADHD), but I know what I’m about, son.
If your pinna is being bypassed, you can’t get proper 3D audio without faking it in software. Plain and simple. That’s the point I’m making. Nothing more.
Doesn’t matter if the pinna is bypassed or not. 3d audio (soundstage) requires both ears to receive signal from the same point source. The time delay between the two ears receiving the signal is the crux of the entire premise. Headphones inherently defeat that entirely by having the entire ear subjected to one side of the audio.
Ergo, headphones do not provide any 3d audio or soundstage.
You clearly left out the main thing anyone would need to troubleshoot this issue… what kind of music are you listening to. Obviously low quality music will wreck headphones no matter how good they are.
probably Psalm 69 by Minstry, I made the same mistake in high school, my headphones didn’t leak anything, but several lesser demons briefly manifested. I just went back to listening to White Zombie, and it all calmed down.
Grime
Music so touching, it brought the cable to tears.
Skrillex actually.
It’s just going trough puberty
I think it’s infected. You better take them to Dr. Dre.
Beat me to it.
Who?
Ya’ll forgot about Dre!?!
dr dre is dead, he’s locked in my basement.
(hahaha)
Nowadays, everybody wants to talk
Like they got somethin to say
I wonder what the critical mass of people has to be, on average, for this to get through the chorus here.
But… nothing comes out when they move they lips
Just a bunch of gibberish
and motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre
Dr Who isn’t that kind of a doctor.
Depends on what the underlying problem in. How many people’s headphones are oozing goo? It could be an invasion!
mike jones.
Not a medical doctor. As such.
what does it taste like
Like honey
That’s a Spotify Leak /s
This reminds me of the old Apple Macbook chargers where the cable was permanently attached to the charger itself. These cables became brittle and discolored from white to yelloy (they looked like they have been in a heavy smokers’ household when exposed to UV light, which is always). When I tried to fix the brittle cables with tape, it got worse and probably due to a chemical reaction between the material of the cable and the sticky glue of the tape they completely disintegrated.
Your headphones are beyond repair. It looks like they have been exposed to some chemicals. Did you at one point in time clean them with perhaps an aggressive cleaner (toilet/ household cleaner)? It could be possible that some cleaner got inside the cable through a micro-crack in the cables’ insulation and reacted with the copper inside.
You should replace them. The ooze is probably not healthy.
Bro just clean your ears bro
This happened to the outer rubbery (soft plastic) housing on my bike U lock. For like 10 years it was great, then one first-ride-of-spring I grab it, and it’s like the entire thing was dunked in a pot of honey.
Rubberized coating does that eventually, especially if the ambient humidity is high.
