My headphones just exploded.
Update And the $15.00 Sony MDR-XD100 overheads that I bought to replace my (now exploded) $17.00 Maxell HP-550 overheads have a bizarre ear enclosure. There's a static chamber which sits casually over your ear rather than actually sealing over it...the sound quality is pretty great, but ruined by the noise of my office, which is echoing around amidst the music in that unsealed chamber in the same way you can hear the sea in a seashell.
Which isn't so bad listening to full-spectrum stuff like Amon Tobin, but where the vocals or backing is knocking about in there on the same frequency...say, early Beatles stuff, it's annoying.
Boo.
(The bass is pretty good though.)
What the HELL are you doing to cause them to explode? Is it painful when they do?
or what song were you playing when they blew?
When I say 'exploded' I mean more 'shattered and flew all over the place in an explosive manner'.
It's part of my new verbal economy drive (yeah, right) coupled with the desire to be excessively dramatic that I left it at 'exploded'.
I think it was Pulp's 'Pencil Skirt'.
Oh well, that explains it.