OS X freezes (sometimes) when plugging in my USB headphones

I have USB headphones and a MacBook Pro. If I plug in my USB headphones into my MacBook Pro for the first time since the laptop has started up, then chances are that OS X will freeze, and then I force a shutdown and a restart.
Once the laptop is back up, then I can safely plug in my USB headphones and not have a freeze again.
Can someone tell me why this happens? It's a fairly regular occurrence and happens as I explain above; during the time that I plug the headphones in, I am not usually doing anything process-intensive on my computer.
Help please!
Thanks in advance!

Hi GaryKing,
Thanks for your answer.
As far as I know your headphones are not working as expected, why don't you try to install a driver?. I have to work with quite a few different type of printers and MFD, those might work or not depending on the driver you have installed on your MAC for them, you always can use the postscript driver that comes built-in on Mac OS X for your printers/MFD/Headphones or whatever you have attached on your Mac but it doesn't mean the device is going to work with all the potential.
I would like to know, if you don't mind, if the headphones work with the original drivers.
Regards

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