On the subject of ear/headphones and a ridiculous showing from Sennheiser

Gah, I feel like I've been on an earphone/headphone buying spree this month...both my headphones and earphones broke last month and I bought these rather expensive (HKD 330) Sennheiser earphones in the second week of April. Thought they'd last since they were pretty darn expensive and Sennheiser's supposedly one of the best makers of earphones/headphones.

Apparently not the best of ideas as it turns out. They broke the day before yesterday...and it hasn't been a month since I bought them. FML.

Couldn't exchange them since I had bought them nearly a month ago and thought that going to claim it on warranty was much too troublesome and so I bought some Sony earphones yesterday and today bought some headphones from Audio-Technica (which I believe make simply the best headphones...at least in my experience).  The both of them combined cost HKD 417... even this amount of money to splurge on ear/headphones looks ridiculous to my eyes but hopefully they'll last much much MUCH longer than Sennheiser which probably holds the record of 'Shortest time to break' at the moment. Mon Dieu... -________-