Weak Spot In Ml80 Headphones?

[roddosnow]

On 4/26/2018 at 1:34 PM, Lunk said:

At Gerry’s Metal Detectors, we’ve noticed a consistent physical defect with the supplied Equinox  headphones in three of our staff members’ personal units. The small plastic piece that is screwed down over the end of the headband padding is breaking at the stress point located between the two screw holes; upon opening one brand new unit, the broken piece was found already detached and lying on the bottom of the headphone case. Folks, please inspect your headphones at the affected area (see pics below) and report back here. Hopefully it’s not a widespread issue.

Normal, undamaged part:

 

Broken part, with upper half of plastic piece missing:

I don't have an EQ or the headphones however i have seen this same problem on a couple of cheaper headphones i have owned in the past, one which broke first time i put them on. very similar design to the above. the good thing is that it didn't seem to affect the function, on these it looks like a defect in the plastic combined with the design which looks like it would place stress on the top edge of that piece. i would think a better design would have had the screws located closer to the top of the piece.

[Lunk]

3 hours ago, roddosnow said:

I don't have an EQ or the headphones however i have seen this same problem on a couple of cheaper headphones i have owned in the past, one which broke first time i put them on. very similar design to the above. the good thing is that it didn't seem to affect the function, on these it looks like a defect in the plastic combined with the design which looks like it would place stress on the top edge of that piece. i would think a better design would have had the screws located closer to the top of the piece.

My thoughts exactly, roddosnow. It's merely a cosmetic issue that doesn't affect the performance of the headphones in any way. It appears that the consensus so far is that only a very small percentage of headphones were defective.

[1afox]

Mine was broke out of the box. Got it replaced under warranty.