Technically processing my listeners was a nut: the left earpiece broke up after a year in 2 halves. UHU all-purpose adhesive has helped here.
Crackling and 'Sound Off' now on the left channel - after 2 years, but only rarely use.
I have the cable carefully cut - and lo and behold: the 6-cm-long wire to the listeners for round-the-ears-turn had destroyed the insulation around the two leads. How ever this isolation already crumbling from easy look.
For an investment of around 300 euros little consideration!