That sounds a bit harsh (a-ha... no pun intended). I have two pairs of their wired headphones (HD-600 and HD-280) -- both have served quite well for over a decade, though part of the plastic casing on the HD-280 snapped after getting scrunched during a trans-Atlantic flight several years ago. A former cube-mate of mine had a pair of their wireless headphones (don't recall the model), and he had no complaints about them. Mind you, he used them in an environment where he wasn't more than a few feet away from the source...