I was forced to use the clip because Mrs. Wiley kept breaking into uncontrollable laughter every time she walked by me with the ballcap on.
The clip is not a load bearing device, by any stretch, but as long as you don't put anything heavy on it that actually breaks the plastic, it'll be ok. Mine has a tendency if I happen to drop my headset to come apart at the one joint in cactuskooler's pic, but it's soft enough it just appears to go back together with no permanent harm done, on mine. I had thought about reinforcing it, but what worries me about that is if you reinforce it before it breaks, and it has something heavy enough on it, I'd say it would be more likely to break worse. I know I've dropped my headphones and if I'd had it taped or whatever, I'm reasonably certain it'd have broken similar to cactuskooler's.
As for a headset, I use a set of Zalman 5.1 surround headphones. They're pretty inexpensive for a surround setup, but I've had wires inside them break, so I'm on my second set. I don't believe I'd recommend them to another person, they're good enough for me though.
Wiley.
