After 26 months of good services defective - planned obsolescence?

A lot has been written to. Sonically the headphones are really a sensation, if it were not the strong noises that are transmitted through the cable movement. To listen audiobook in bed at night, they are super. Hardly disturb, are small, good sound, I krimskrams remote control and attenuate ambient noise.

Unfortunately, after about 2 years, the left began to rattle with sonorous speaking voice, or a lot of bass and after exactly 26 months of right now failed completely without loose contact. Just dead. A rogue who thinks this of planned obsolescence ..
My almost 20 year old AIWA buttons can I still open and pure solder a new cable. They sound great. Only the rubber mount has become too hard plastic ..

Now the AKG K328 are ordered. Let's see if the better.