No worries folks, it was a detachable by design. Only the cord broke, the cans are fine. It's not worth the hassle of getting worked up about; I just plugged in a replacement from the pair I broke earlier. (That one was at least partially my fault). Now if this were to happen to any of my other headphones I'd be truly screwed, since they're all single-wired from the left in a non-detachable fashion.