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It turns out my headphones (or monitors as I call them—musicians will know what I mean) went kaput. In fact, it's a kaput I have never seen before. The jack end came off. Literally. Inside an adaptor I was using on another computer where some of my garbage music files live. I knew that Ollie's had a few variety of sets, but they were all around $15, and I thought, I know I can get them cheaper. Granted, the pair I got now to replace the broken ones are only temporary. For monitors I want something of a bit better quality for obvious reasons at least obvious to me. But in the interim, I needed something that will simply do and didn't want to shell out an arm and a leg for them. Not that $15 is necessarily an arm and a leg, mind you, but you get the point. I decided to check out Five Below to see what they had. I've seen them there for $10 and thought, well, that's better than $15. But when I got there I found a set for $6. With tax that came to $6.50. I have tried them and so far they work fairly well enough. They will get me by in a pinch anyway until I can fetch the right set (which will likely cost me an arm and a leg by the way). My external monitors do most of the work, and those work fine, so maybe these will actually work well enough without a need to actually get a more expensive set. We shall see.