I didn’t think I’d ever get to the point of asking for this product specifically, but are there any recommendations for 3.5mm TRS male to male cables, suitable for headphones, available for purchase from mainland US, and preferably 10ft?
In the past year, the original cable that came with my SHP9500’s started to exhibit problems, and had to be replaced after ~5 years of regular use. This past year, I had replaced it with a cable from KabelDirekt, which failed in about 7 months. KabelDirekt’s warranty handling simply refunded my purchase rather replace the broken cable, so I took it as a sign that they weren’t confident in their products and to try a different company. I then went with a Monoprice cable, which I have gone through three of. None of the three so far have lasted more than 3 weeks, and Monoprice is asking to have the existing faulty cables returned via a rather inconvenient shipping provider before sending another.
Right now, I have stolen my record player’s RCA to 3.5mm cable and an RCA-3.5mm adapter, which is working for the time being. Unfortunately, it does seem that the manufacturer (Ugreen) has stopped selling audio cables however, nor do I really want to be stuck with an adapter chain off of my audio interface.
I’ve seen some nice ones with gold plated connectors and coil spring strain relief but don’t remember where.
However, 3.5mm cables are inherently not BIFL, they’re a compromise for small equipment like old fashioned transistor radios and cassette players. More serious headphones always used 1/4" connectors or maybe XLR or who knows.
I’m glad that my phone has a 3.5mm jack but I just figure my phone and earbuds aren’t BIFL either. I’ve had to replace earbuds a few times though generally not because of the cables.
This doesn’t look great but it’s probably ok. https://www.adafruit.com/product/876
Don’t your headphones have a 1/4" plug that you can use with an adapter to a 3.5mm jack?
I guess if you really want to go nuts, you could ask on head-fi.org.