One of the awesome feature of the Sennheiser is the changeable cable.
I had 2 "gaming" headsets before this like trak said, a razer that i cant tell you the name cause they discontinued it (lol) and i cant remember what it was called and the Steelsteries 5Hv2. Both broke around the year mark, and both had the same problem: one of the speakers stopped working, which is usually due to a cable problem and also very common.
My dog chewed the cable on my new Sennheiser HD555 2 months after i got them, all I had to do was buy a new cable fairly cheap and they were fixed!!
Sennheiser products have awesome sound and are built to last.