I bought several of these as a workaround for cases that have too narrow a plug hole on the iphone5 I also started using them to protect constant unplugging of my itouch & headphone jacks that were too large. After a few days one side shorted out & it was the adapter connection that had frayed even though it was never removed by wire-always carefully handled...i replaced it w a new spare but several weeks of trying to figure out what the sound quality problems were with new headphones and whether it was a ripping/ download setting....finally discovered the distortion & thin sound was this adapter!! I used another since i had  a third i had yet to use and same result!! These are crappy sounding adapters that might allow you to plug in a headphone for a week or less but also GREATLY compromising sound quality!