#I'm weirdly reluctant to buy new headphones when mine are on their last legs

[hephaestuscrew]

Listening to fiction podcasts with my dodgy headphones is so humiliating because when there's a long pause in what I'm listening to, I'm sat there trying to guess if it's for dramatic effect or a scene transition, or if my headphones have just decided to stop working.

#See also: Is this static part of the sound design or an issue on my end? Are these voice meant to sound muffled or not? #For someone who cannot function without the ability to listen to something #I'm weirdly reluctant to buy new headphones when mine are on their last legs #They are either expensive or they break really quickly or both #And I resent it #So here I am listening with only one working earbud which works about 70% of the time #I don't know if it's more humiliating #when I assume it's for dramatic effect so I listen to an unnecessary minute of silence pondering the significance of the last line I heard #or when I start jiggling my headphone wire /pausing & restarting to try to get it to work only to realise the silence was part of the show #the empty man rambleth #This is a very unimportant issue but I just wanted to express it