The I paid $25 for these pretty decent ones, they go for $60 retail. Everything was fine and then I remembered the third reason this is trash technology: the screen thingie always comes off, or gets gummed up and has to be taken ‘ off, making it sound like something I wouldn’t even pay $5 for.
If it isn’t that, earbuds will either not stay put, or I’ll lose one, just one.
If the screen is like the metal screen on the end of airpods then you can usually safely use alcohol and q tips to clean the earwax and dead skin out of it.
I’m using some cheap Walmart ones waiting for a replacement pair to come in and it’s real “damn, you live like this” times. They’re so bad and disorienting and they seem to be connecting with a very low quality link.
What blows my mind is that they have the “tips” you’re supposed to fit in your ear for a better, more efficient seal and a huge physical body that ought to mean more efficient cavity for the driver and more low bass but they’re still quiet as heck and sound like shit.