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Galaxy Buds Pro and Galaxy Buds 2 allegedly causing severe ear infections

30 points by gjsman-1000 5y ago

gjsman-1000 5y ago
Also see the filed proposed class-action lawsuit: https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-claims-defect-in-samsung-galaxy-buds-pro-earbuds-causes-allergic-reactions https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-claims-defect-...
starwind 5y ago
After getting my bag, wired headphones, and mask all tangled up on the train on my way to work, I went on the hunt for good wireless headphones. I tried out a few, and the Galaxy Buds 2 sounded and worked great but my ears physically hurt after using them for a few minutes. I tried the three different tips and nothing helped. I figured I would get used to them and worked them for about a half hour and ended up dizzy with a huge headache. I don't what was up but it didn’t happen with any other of the pairs I tried out
ivraatiems 5y ago
I worked at a radio station for some years, and one of the first pieces of advice I got was "bring your own headphones." Even now I'm hesitant to use display units in stores. And this is just talking about over-ears! Though they deliver arguably some of the best sound quality for the price in some cases, I just can't do in-ear headphones.
- kinow 5y ago
  I have an old over-ears and need to replace it. What headphones do you recommend (interested as you said you worked at a radio station)?
  - ivraatiems 5y ago
    So working at a radio station is less about having a high fidelity set of headphones than it is having reference headphones that are reproducing the sound accurately and are comfy. When I was there, I had a pair of bog-standard ATH-M50s, which are a relatively cheap and very common closed-back headphone. The station headphones were Koss something-or-others that went for like $30 each and were adequate but not particularly good at anything. For headphones you might like to use every day, it's a much different question. What do you have now? What do you like/dislike about them? What do you listen to? And so on. Many questions to consider!
lnxg33k1 5y ago
I'm not sure why Samsung has decided to suicide, like in the space of a year I've started hearing about unwanted advertising in their smart TVs, flip phones pushed to market with broken screens, phones full of bloatware, now this about their buds, i mean i would give any product the benefit of the doubt, but to be honest I would never consider buying a Samsung one right now
- melony 5y ago
  Their products have always been full of bloatware, nothing changed.
- llampx 5y ago
  I have heard here and elsewhere that their appliances are no great shakes either, that they are unreliable and made to fail in ways that take the consumer for a ride.
  - gjsman-1000 5y ago
    Don’t get me started. We put in a new kitchen two years ago, and used Samsung for parts of it. We were taken for an unbelievable ride. The oven melted it’s handles off and just quit out of the blue one day, so it was replaced after a failed repair, not with a Samsung. The dishwasher had problems, the replacement (still Samsung but different model) also had problems, and then we finally switched to Bosch. The microwave is OK, but the repairman who tried and failed to fix the original oven said that because the circuitry was in the door - don’t let kids slam it, be gentle, that fails all the time. The refrigerator also still works, but apparently Samsung’s interpretation of “stainless steel” means “dents easily.” All this in two years mind you. Not to mention a Galaxy Note 9 which around the same time eventually got so slow it couldn’t open some larger emails after a reboot and was dropping calls the majority of the time, and a battery swap didn’t fix it because it turns out it was a rare unresolved firmware problem! It’s now Bosch appliances and iPhones.
schleck8 5y ago
There is two suspected materials, one being nickel.

30 points by gjsman-1000 5y ago

Also see the filed proposed class-action lawsuit: https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-claims-defect-in-samsung-galaxy-buds-pro-earbuds-causes-allergic-reactions https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-claims-defect-...

starwind 5y ago

After getting my bag, wired headphones, and mask all tangled up on the train on my way to work, I went on the hunt for good wireless headphones. I tried out a few, and the Galaxy Buds 2 sounded and worked great but my ears physically hurt after using them for a few minutes. I tried the three different tips and nothing helped. I figured I would get used to them and worked them for about a half hour and ended up dizzy with a huge headache. I don't what was up but it didn’t happen with any other of the pairs I tried out

ivraatiems 5y ago

I worked at a radio station for some years, and one of the first pieces of advice I got was "bring your own headphones." Even now I'm hesitant to use display units in stores. And this is just talking about over-ears! Though they deliver arguably some of the best sound quality for the price in some cases, I just can't do in-ear headphones.

kinow 5y ago
I have an old over-ears and need to replace it. What headphones do you recommend (interested as you said you worked at a radio station)?
- ivraatiems 5y ago
  So working at a radio station is less about having a high fidelity set of headphones than it is having reference headphones that are reproducing the sound accurately and are comfy. When I was there, I had a pair of bog-standard ATH-M50s, which are a relatively cheap and very common closed-back headphone. The station headphones were Koss something-or-others that went for like $30 each and were adequate but not particularly good at anything. For headphones you might like to use every day, it's a much different question. What do you have now? What do you like/dislike about them? What do you listen to? And so on. Many questions to consider!

lnxg33k1 5y ago

I'm not sure why Samsung has decided to suicide, like in the space of a year I've started hearing about unwanted advertising in their smart TVs, flip phones pushed to market with broken screens, phones full of bloatware, now this about their buds, i mean i would give any product the benefit of the doubt, but to be honest I would never consider buying a Samsung one right now

melony 5y ago
Their products have always been full of bloatware, nothing changed.
llampx 5y ago
I have heard here and elsewhere that their appliances are no great shakes either, that they are unreliable and made to fail in ways that take the consumer for a ride.
- gjsman-1000 5y ago
  Don’t get me started. We put in a new kitchen two years ago, and used Samsung for parts of it. We were taken for an unbelievable ride. The oven melted it’s handles off and just quit out of the blue one day, so it was replaced after a failed repair, not with a Samsung. The dishwasher had problems, the replacement (still Samsung but different model) also had problems, and then we finally switched to Bosch. The microwave is OK, but the repairman who tried and failed to fix the original oven said that because the circuitry was in the door - don’t let kids slam it, be gentle, that fails all the time. The refrigerator also still works, but apparently Samsung’s interpretation of “stainless steel” means “dents easily.” All this in two years mind you. Not to mention a Galaxy Note 9 which around the same time eventually got so slow it couldn’t open some larger emails after a reboot and was dropping calls the majority of the time, and a battery swap didn’t fix it because it turns out it was a rare unresolved firmware problem! It’s now Bosch appliances and iPhones.

schleck8 5y ago

There is two suspected materials, one being nickel.