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I would not buy another Belkin. This worked for only a couple of months and then went dead. In fact I bought a cable made by Philips not long after I bought this one and has continued to work perfectly.
Despite its good looks and feel, it has turned out to be very flaky. It involved fidgeting with the tips every time I had to plug it in.
So I know for sure that it wasn't the iPhone headphones that were causing the problem. The paint on the metal tips scrape off making it look cheap and nasty.
I lived with this annoyance for 8 months, but after that it started cutting off sound intermittently.I haven't even mentioned the cosmetic problems yet. Buyer beware.I have replaced it with a cheap Radioshack extension cable and all these problems have gone away.
This is the worst cable of any kind I have ever bought in my life. I was using this connect my iPhone headphones to my MacBook Pro but from the very beginning I had to have the headphone jack pushed in just the right way to get proper sound.
The rubber insulation also attracts a lot of dust, which isn't so easy to clean off.I would not recommend this to anyone.
I still have not been able to understand what causes the right audio channel to die in a few months time, especially since it keeps happening with all the cables including the replacements I have received. If someone has been able to figure this out and knows of a better solution, please let me know as well. I would not recommend this cable because of this issue. If you bend the cable and apply pressure towards the female connector, it seems to work sometimes, but its very flaky. Unfortunately since my purchase, I have had to get them replaced via Belkin RMA 3 times. I bought this cable to use headphones with my Sony LCD since I did not like the big wireless headphones. As another reviewer posted, after a few days of use the right audio channel starts to cut off. Even though this cable looks very nice & solid, unfortunately it does not perform as nicely.
It was not the headphone cord itself as I tried the headphone cord by itself and moved the cord around and there was no problem so it was in the Belkin extension itself. I needed a good extension cord for my headphones so after reading the good reviews this cord received, I decided to try them out.From the get-go I had to clamp the heavy metal end of the male side to keep it from sliding down and not inserting properly into the speaker jack.After that, everything went well for awhile, although the metal ends were a little heavy while moving around and extending the cord.Then the right side of the headphones would intermittently cut on and off. The problem seems to be located near the female end of the Belkin extension after error correcting and maneuvering the cable around in various ways.
Great buy. The cable has a soft, flexible feel to it. While there is nothing exciting about audio extension cables, this one comes close. It has a great feel to it, and what seems like heavy duty metal ends. It also seems imposable to tangle, which is great.
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