Yeah it helped.
And you're right, mine did break after a year of using them, fortunately the warranty was still active back then and I had them replaced. Then again they broke a little a year or 2 after the warranty situation, but then a little glue could just fix it

The headphones have 4 audio jacks (3 for output and 1 for input), but as I'm on a laptop I can only use 1 anyway and the only reason I'm using these headphones is because all the cheap shit I've bought for ~15€ has died on me and this is the only pair that still works (although, as I mentioned the plastic broke a little a couple of years ago).
As for the busy morning, it's evening here in Estonia

but then again it's been pretty busy, too