Imagine making a pair of headphones that are SO FRAGILE that there's an entire class of memes about them.
Sony's WH1000-XM5 headphones are so well known for earcup hinge failure that there's not only a meme on the SonyHeadphones subreddit about it, but a broader lore about a dog that appears in that meme has developed as well.
And now they're asking $450 for the new WH1000-XM6 headphones? Fuck that. Don't buy that shit. If you do buy that shit, pay for a protection plan on them, or make sure you register your purchase with your credit card's benefit services so you can take advantage of the warranty extension, if your card has one.
Personally, I bought a pair of them in 2022, the hinge failed 16 months after that. Thankfully they replaced them for me for free at the time, but now the replacement ones have a slightly different form of hinge failure developing, and a ziptie is holding it together for now, and they refuse to do anything about it because it's "physical damage or cosmetic damage", which is plainly bullshit but since it's already a replaced pair I'm out of luck.
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