
How to stop your headphones dying after two years
Almost every pair we have retired failed in one of three places, and two of them are a ten-minute fix if the manufacturer sells the part.
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Almost every pair we have retired failed in one of three places, and two of them are a ten-minute fix if the manufacturer sells the part.

We ran nine machines under sustained load for thirty minutes each and measured what was left. The winner loses every ten-second benchmark on this page.

It loses the benchmark and wins the afternoon. Eight weeks with the machine that holds 94% of its clocks after half an hour under load.
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