Right had my MX500's for about 6 months now, ill start by saying i have a G3 20gb using Volumeboost 1.3 at 45 setting. I also have my mp3's normalised to 91db using MP3gain.

Ok so i was listening to my pod, and all of a sudden the left bud starts to rattle, almost like theres something loose inside shaking around. Not to chuffed about it to be honest with you, i havent ever 'mis-treated' them and prior to hiking the volumes up, i 'ran' them in for around 12 hours continuously, and was cautious for the first week or so to let them loosen fully.

However, this just takes the p#ss, i started listening to some Eminem-Monkey C monkey do this morning and the sound was atrocious, so i took it out and wacked it several times against a table in an attempt to 'fix' it and to ease my frustrations.

Its been on since, but i didnt expect somene one Sennheisers reputations for design and quality to 'blow' after 6 months, im assuming that its blown (maybe wrongly) or perhaps something like the cone has come loose.

Either way im not a happy camper, good job i only paid ?17 for them from veronica's

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