I use these to help me fall asleep. After a few months, the very thin wire inside the insulation does break, but probably from my sleeping head rolling over! I do get a few months out of them before having to discard. I wish they used a heavier gauge wire.for the money they work good. I bought them for my grandson who is five he is hard on electronics, its a good item to buy and not spend alot of moneyneeded something reasonably priced for the kid to keep at school for center time and computer time. these work perfectly for their purpose.I bought these for my small kids to listen to movies on the plane. They don't care much for earbuds. The sound on these old things are horrible. Keeping in mind that the plane can be hard on the ears for sound qulaity. You get what you pay for. :)I was hoping these would be better than the ones I currently had. They work they same, which is good enough, but they are too big for my head. They keep slipping off my head:( Not much I can do about that...I just can't find head phones that fit me.These headphones are okay. If you don't want to spend a ton of money for headphones that have average sound quality these are a pretty good buy.You get what you pay for. I bought this for my daughter to use in Media at school and she hated it. It didn't cost much, and because of this, it's not even worth the expense to return. Next...I have not used these myself, they were purchased for my kids. Both of my children said they were not pleased with the quality of the sound or comfort.