>Oldschool wired headphones: still in perfect condition despite using them a lot for years, even the cheapass ones
>Modern wireless headphones: The pads cushions at my on-ear headphones are already in shitty condition in just few months despite being expensive brand. And the pads at the in-ear headphones get removed by themselves easily and got lost in just few months.

Why are modern products so crappy made despite being often ovepriced?

>>81542785 (OP)
Because turd worlders make everything now and they're retarded.

>>81542785 (OP)
your beats and sonys are often made in the same factory as the cheapest chinesium headphones possible, sometimes with the same parts.

>>81543189
OP here. My wireless headphones are JBL and yet they re like I described at OP post.

>>81542785 (OP)
If you hate that then you hate capitalism.

>>81543632
>If you hate that then you hate capitalism
I hate capitalism because it's Jews' creation. And Jews have never created anything good for humanity.

>>81542785 (OP)
Don't wired ones sound better at the same price point too? I much prefer having my etymotics to whatever the fuck is popular.

>>81543577
You are likely storing them in a shitty place. Also JBL is expensive brand but reputation comes from quality of sound, so if you buy the cheap JBLs you still get the cheap material that breaks in months. Looks ugly but it still works

>>81543577
>JBL
you're buying dogshit brands and wondering why they're dogshit

>>81542785 (OP)
if you MUST use wireless buy cheap disposable shit because they all will die eventually with no way to replace the battery. a nice pair of high quality wired headphones can last indefinitely.

>>81543577
>>81544771
Should've tried JBW instead

>>81542785 (OP)
you can just buy replacement muffs. maybe get a velour or leather material instead of that flaky pleather garbage.

>>81542785 (OP)
The business model is to make you spend as much money as possible instead of giving you a quality product.

>>81542785 (OP)
Semi-related, but somehow the shitty $50 steel series headset I got a decade ago has the best audio quality people have ever heard based on what I've had people tell me that I've talked to. I got an expensive pair of headphones recently and my friends complained about the drop in audio quality

>>81542785 (OP)
The rot goes all the way to the top. Yes, turd worlders working slavery """wages""" are making your products, but the design was absolutely terrible to begin with since it was designed by a committee of incompetents iterating off of an old design from back when it was quality, except the focus being more on finding ways to cut costs rather than making a better product. The vast majority of the budget went into marketing, to artificially drive demand.
And that's the time actually spent working, not the rest (majority) of the time they spent trying to get each other fired over petty office politics.

>>81544815
unironically i'm autistic enough to replace the battery, if it still works I'm keeping it

>>81542785 (OP)
Vertical integration
Planned obsolescence
Whatever you wanna call it, there's no reason to make anything good anymore, because a nation of consoomers will just grumble and buy a new one anyway

>>81542785 (OP)
Good question, i was wondering the same thing when i tried to purchase new headphones after having used the same wired pair for over a decade. Tried buying like 4 different ones and they were all a downgrade in terms of comfort, sound and compatibility. Ended up sticking to the ones i had. Thought it'd be easier to get a good set in the tech obsessed era we're in..