Hi, i am very surprise that some of the members here can use the same earphone for so many yrs but yet mine spoilt every 5 or 6mths. I am not using thoes low quality in ear earphone, i am using avg in ear earphone like cresyn ep630, sony ex71 to name a few. but why mine spoilt so fast? is it becoz i always coil the earphone around my mp3 player thus causing the wire to lossen?