I think cancer treatment will be more costly than a new pair of earbuds or whatever your next cheap accessory that is leaking unknown chemicals.

You clearly left out the main thing anyone would need to troubleshoot this issue... what kind of music are you listening to. Obviously low quality music will wreck headphones no matter how good they are.

I think it's infected. You better take them to Dr. Dre.

Given that:

1. The statue of Mother Mary cries;
2. These earphones are weeping;

You are witnessing divine signals from heaven above, and can charge people money to make the holy trek to witness your hallowed earphones.

It's just going trough puberty

Oh boy!!! Just what I was looking for. How much for a pint of certified organic cable syrup? Can you guarantee it's less than 1% earwax by weight? If so I can go as high as tree fiddy.

My usual source on FB marketplace is playing hard to get. They said 'I know what I've got and I won't take less than a dub'. What a scammer LOL. Unless that syrup is gold plated I ain't paying 20 bucks for a pint, smh.

This happened to the outer rubbery (soft plastic) housing on my bike U lock. For like 10 years it was great, then one first-ride-of-spring I grab it, and it's like the entire thing was dunked in a pot of honey.

Bro just clean your ears bro

Ok, so, A. Buy new earbuds. And B. Don't throw them away, give their "body" to science, I want a full autopsy of these.

I'll give you a nickel if you lick it

what does it taste like

Try isopropyl alcohol 70%. The stuff you use for disinfectant in the first aid aisle. Soft rubbery plastics do this over time. The alcohol will strip the soft material that is disintegrating and leave the smooth plastic behind.

If it’s leaking from the inside, it may be that the polymer never properly cured and is still liquid on the interior. You could try returning it as defective, or just shell out for a new cable

Why would you still use them after the first day you knew this was happening?

Are your headphones sucking out your ear wax or something? What the heck even is that gunk? 😮

Send them to their resting place, they've done all they can

We live in a corrosive atmosphere.

When rubber and plastic run out of antioxidants they will disintegrate or turn in to a slime.

When using recycled plastics this is a real wild card. Levels can wary wildly from batch to batch, so even the manufacturers don't really have a clue. Only occasionally tested minimum levels.

Pristine stuff can be used more for planned obsolesce.

Thats the sin leaking out.

pffffftttt i dont buy it... no way youve had a pair of earphones for a year

It's lived past is expected use case a set of headphones should be, this is reality bleading though your headphones.

The vital essence

If it's anything like the Aliens movie, then it's a droid.

It is the era of device

Get something newer as overtime the older rubber like materials tend to break down.

The door paint in my last flat did this if you hung damp clothes over them. But you could wipe it off at least.

I would try two things.

1. heat gun the goo a little (get it up to like 150F or so) and see if it the sappy liquid runs and you can maybe clean it and drain it easier at temp

2. get some shrink wrap to seal up the ends. That might help for a while if you can get it tight.

I'm not familiar with those headphones but sometimes manufacturers will put grease or goo inside the cables to reduce straining and folding of the wires.

It looks kinda like rosin in the photo. I wonder if something inside the device was saturated in rosin and its just leaking down the cable?

I've had cables so this after ten (five of I left em in the car) so maybe they're a touch old?

It's that xxx site youbkeep visiting

I also had this once.

This might be the answer: https://integraudio.com/why-headphones-cable-sticky/

I gotta question.

Is badge502 on Lemmy?

Ah well. He’s been giffed.

Whaa, a follow up on the pimple headphones!? Ouch, yeah that looks even worse now, crazy that you kept using them even after all this time, yeah, that looks like replacing time indeed.

If it didn't sound like a possibly very unsafe idea I'd say i wonder how much it would degrade and how would it look if you sealed it on some kind of bag and left it there for a very log time haha

bruh

The 7Hz x Crinacle Zero 2 and the Truthear Gate or Hola (worse but a little cheaper) are both pretty good and around $20. Might be worth considering for a good replacement.

People also like the Moondrop Chu II, but they have bad QC and I don't like the frequency response (too V-shaped), so I wouldn't recommend them.