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Re: Brittle / Hardening of earphone cables.

Well, if its the insulation, body oils and such may well be the cause as Dan says. I never knew that a Bybee purifier worked on earwax, though!

I don't use headphones nearly as much as you do, but I have had the cord go, too', but because of the wires. I rather suspect that reason is that the last foot undergoes much more flexing than the rest of the cord, and so the wire eventually gets brittle and breaks. Maybe all that flexing affects the PVC, too.
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