I was on the way up to US from Asia and transit at HK and bought airline adapter. As soon as the plane took off I plug the TF10 with the adapter into the airline seat. I leave the TF10 for a while and do some reading. When I'm ready to watch some inflight entertainment, I hold the left IEM and it burned my hand. Apparently the plastic right in between black and blue part melted (in the inside part) and I can faintly smell burning smells

When it cold down I tried and have lost the bass responses. There's no bass at all on left channel. I guess the low driver was burned. I dont have any idea if I buy a screwed up airline adapter or its the headphone port thats causing this.

Now perhaps a member here have some leftover amazon deals that they willing to part with some profit ? I have grown to like it a lot and been using it constantly as my travel rig. With the recent purchase galore of headphones I'm very low on cash......

That sucks, dude. Engineers correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds like DC -- nothing to do with the adapter.

Yup, sounds like DC offset. Probably doesn't take much to cook a set of IEMs.

so who's fault is it? The airline ?

I don't know, I'm not a lawyer. I mean it's your fault in as much as you trusted the airlines and stuck your plug in their jack; but in your defense, unless there's some sort of crossover, even their headphones should not have been able to handle DC offset -- it would have fried theirs too.

the dick wit steward with the stupid grin just handed me another set of their headphone and i use it, no probs there.....

Be glad he actually helped you and tried to look amicable. A fucking dipshit of a twat tried to get me kicked off the plane when I told him not to move my luggage in cargo holds all over the fucking plane.

I mean it's HK airport - stuff is expensive but legit. Plus consumer protection laws here are crap anyways even if the adapter was at fault, but then again I'm a loooong way from finishing my law degree.

I mean it's your fault in as much as you trusted the airlines and stuck your plug in their jack;

Let that be a lesson to us all.. don't go stickin' your plug in public jacks.

TFT that's why only stick my plug on the safe jacks I have at home...

is there such thing like plug condoms ? if so, is it safe enough.....

Sounds to me like you tried to create an international incident that will lead to the banning of IEMs on all flights. Well done.

well, either ban iem or there's a new clause on every purchase of iem that the warranty void if u stick it on the airline in seat jack

is there such thing like plug condoms ? if so, is it safe enough.....

adapter with inline film capacitor?

anyway, just got off the phone with UE support. They promised to send me a replacement once they got my fried driver. Will cross my fingers on that.

is there such thing like plug condoms ? if so, is it safe enough.....

Yes, it's called abstinence.

anyway, just got off the phone with UE support. They promised to send me a replacement once they got my fried driver. Will cross my fingers on that.

Very nice of them.

anyway, just got off the phone with UE support. They promised to send me a replacement once they got my fried driver. Will cross my fingers on that.

My store does some good business with Logitech/UE and their handling of issues like this is usually pretty satisfactory. I know for example if we have any problems with our cheap Logitech speakers, they get a rep to bring by replacements in a day or two-- not so great given other company's responses.

Although, I tried speaking to the Logitech rep one time about us carrying the higher end universal UE IEMS and he had next to no idea what I was talking about.