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| - About a month ago while walking back to my apartment, the left cup of my two-month-old Sennheiser PX-100 II headphones that I received as a Jewish holiday gift ceased all ability to emit sound.
Through some careful detective skills (also known as "Googling"), I managed to find a recommendation for what was quite possibly the only audio repair shop in the Downtown core that fixed headphones, which I hoped was at a decent price.
Enter Ring Audio: Run by the (presumably) father and son team of Ted and Nick Syperek, Ring is a hidden gem for audiophiles looking to buy vintage record players, pre-amps and other retro-by-today's-standards gear or repair virtually any audio equipment. Seriously. If you're looking to purchase a sturdy, aesthetically pleasing cassette deck from the 80s, check these guys out.
So after relinquishing my headphones to Nick, who cut and re-wired the plug of my headphones for an astonishing $30 bucks where it would've cost me at least $120+ to send them off to Sennheiser (I lost my receipt, thus forfeiting any hope of warranty), I biked off into the warm Summer sunset with the sounds of Wilson Pickett blaring in my ears, happy that I could finally toss the dingy iPod earbuds I had been using for the past month to the deep recesses of my backpack.
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