3.5mm straight to right angle plug adaptor

[icedtea_chao]

Hi,

Does anyone know where I can buy a relatively short 3.5 right angle plug adaptor. I live in Australia so the store needs to be situated at Australia(Sydney) or offers shipping to Australia.

It adaptor should be similar to this:

3.5mm extension cord cable for all Earphone,Headphone - eBay Other, For iPod, iPod MP3 Accessories, Electronics. (end time 12-Jan-09 23:19:44 AEDST)

But a 1m extension would make it too long for my Yuin PK3 which has a straight plug.

The reason I want an adaptor is because my previous experience with the straight plug of Sony's EX headphones (bundled with A810) ended up wearing down until the wires inside twisted and snapped. Luckily, it was the extension cable that broke so I could just replace it.

So any advice on where to purchase an adaptor would be great. If worse comes to worse I'll just buy that extension cable from ebay and use one of those rubber cable managers to wrap the unwanted length of cable around. Unless, someone can assure me that my belief that the bent plug tolerate wear and tear more is unjustified.

 

[webbie64]

Haven't found a straight out adapter (i.e. plug 3.5 straight directly into what is at the other end a right angle plug - not sure if you can get these).

Your suggestion looks cheap in price but is likely to have relatively cheap cable within it - SQ loss?

If you can be patient contact Steve Kelby (Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio - View Profile: stevenkelby) - he's away ATM but due back soon. He's renowned as an excellent Aussie cable maker and I have short excellent sounding mini-2-minis from him, including right angle plug terminations.

 

[icedtea_chao]

Yeah, I was aware of the possible SQ loss, but when I replaced the extension cable for my Sony IEM, I didn't really notice a difference. But then again, I don't have much "audio experience" to be a true audiophile.