Thanks for your replies.   Yes, I want strain relief - protection against bending around the plug and pulling. For bending, I guess I'm gonna go with heatshrink. For pulling, epoxy seems a bit too permanent, so I'm probably gonna use something like hot glue; I need to read a bit more about that.

I want to repair some of my cheap headphones/earphones, and I was thinking of using 3.5 mm Neutrik jacks like this one. Unfortunately they seem to miss a "tail" / cable protector - like this one has, for example. Did anybody manage to make one? I was thinking of using one or maybe two overlayed...

In theory there shouldn't be any. In real life though, chinese products often suffer from quality issues. Read this thread to find out what could go wrong; there are 2 users, "BlackStar" and "jusstice" which argue about the quality of the chinese products. In the end it's more or less a personal...

The layout of the text is the same with the one on the Chinese version, they just replaced "made in China" with "www.IAUDIO.com". I suspect it's a Chinese model, but there's no way to tell. Thanks anyway for the picture, TonySunshine.

That's weird.... Based on the picture on Newegg or this one it should be written on the back on the unit: Tested to comply with FCC Standard / Made in Korea. Or, like in this picture, on the last row, right next to "COWON", it should be written "Designed by Cowon. Made in China." Isn't anything...

Hi everybody, Can anyone reccomend an online store in the US which sells Cowon iAudio G3 2GB mp3 players made in Korea, not China? Does anyone know what's the origin of the players that Amazon sells? Or the ones on Newegg? Has anyone in the US actually bought a G3 recently that wasn't made...