[bsghirt]

No I mean just consider the money spent on the annoying ones lost and buy another pair.

No one wants to do that but for a relatively low ticket item which one uses for hours every day it seems masochistic not to do so.

[igouy]

In that case, "consumer preferences [wont] fix stuff like this" because no signal is sent back to "corporate design".

[dbetteridge]

Most decent noise cancelling headphones cost hundreds of dollars, so not exactly low ticket items.