I basically listen to music constantly, and when I’m on holiday or riding my bike I generally use USB-C earbuds. I’ve had way too many wireless buds break and I’m sick of them, but these aren’t fairing much better tbh.
Problem is that the cables always eventually stop working, often from my phone being in my pocket while I’m walking or cycling. I’ve been able to partly extend their life by keeping my phone in the thigh pocket on my cargo pants but it often just falls over and bends the cable more sharply than my hip pocket.
I’m looking for either a pair of highly durable earbuds either USB-C or 3.5mm with a USB-C DAC recommendation, or even better a DSP cable that I could use with IEMs with a 0.78mm connector.
I’m also open to any other suggestions at all.
the only cable lasted on me is trn 8 core cable, i have them now for like 6 years, not sure with the quality of their current cables tho because a lot of things happened and shrinkflation does also affect cheap stuff too
ps: i rarely go out so im not sure if they would also last with being sun blasted and i use but not abuse my cables(ie: pulling them via the connector and not the cable, etc).
Also avoid those super cheap “8 cores” like jcally or qkz, they’re literally trash and would last only for a several months.