Amazon Basics Female Extension Adapter Reviews Summary

Build Quality

Pros:

• "The build quality seems fine, especially given the price."
• "Very good craftsmanship, nice looking, non braided, metal moulded pin (both male and female)."
• "The material feels decently durable."
• "This cable is well-built and feels durable, with a nice thin cord that still feels sturdy, and resists tangling and kinking."
• "The connectors felt somewhat heavy at first, but I am figuring that this is due to durable construction."
• "The cord is sturdy and does not tangle."
• "The sound quality is superb and the durability is amazing."

Cons:

• "This cable is obviously very cheaply made, with zero quality control."
• "The cable is made of cheap flimsy rubber, and feels like it will fall apart after an afternoon in the sun."
• "The cord itself also seems relatively thin apart from the rubber coating around it."
• "The wire is too thin and the rubber application over the wiring is not durable enough in my opinion."
• "However, the cable thickness itself is *much* thinner than the cable this one is replacing."
• "The seems connecting the jack ends are already splitting."
• "I've gone ahead and wrapped each end in electrical tape hopefully keep this thing working."

Sound Quality

Pros:

• "Audio quality sounds just as good as my headphones plugged directly into the interface, no quality loss or introduced noise from my listening."
• "It does not affect the sound quality of the headphones -- it remained crisp and clear."
• "The sound quality is great!"
• "The sound connection is completely clear to my ears, without recording and really looking for noise."
• "The sound quality is as good as my old cable."
• "The sound quality is great and the cable is flexible and folds well."
• "The sound is the same as if the headphones are directly plugged in."

Cons:

• "It sounded like I was in a cave about 100 feet away from the computer!"
• "Sound is still pretty bad."
• "The audio is distorted and it's almost impossible to hear voices."
• "The sound is horrible, you can't even understand when someone is speaking."
• "The audio was so bad that when I played music I was unable to hear the words and most of the song's melody."
• "The audio transferred through, the quality on my headphones compared to using the normal length cord is drastically worse."
• "The audio is extremely distorted and unbalanced."

Functionality

Pros:

• "The cord is the perfect length for my purposes."
• "With this, I have freedom to move about and still continue to listen to my music!"
• "Measured to 6ft long, there's no static, background or anything that interferes this extension from headphones to whatever device."
• "Works as advertised and well built."
• "This cord is more durable, longer and I actually had to turn the sound down on my headset."
• "I got this cable so that I could plug a wired headset into my Nintendo Switch gaming console so I could use voice chat in Fortnite."
• "I use this to increase cord length when practicing guitar through an amp with headphones on and have not noticed any reduction in sound quality."

Cons:

• "On news shows where the commentator is effectively monaural, the two stereo sides have identical signals which cancel each other out, leading to the weird effect of silent voice and loud music."
• "Ordered my first one and it created really bad audio static right out the box with multiple pairs of headphones."
• "They do seem to have an annoying coiling problem though."
• "Analog connection always reduces sound quality with its cable length because of internal resistance of wire (based upon material, impurities and thickness of the wire)."
• "Affordable, but cheap build quality."
• "The female end collapsed too much."
• "This wire does not support a microphone."

Durability

Pros:

• "I bought this over a year ago so my earbuds could reach when I stand my desk up at work and it's gotten tangled, stuck, and ripped out of the computer tower -- and still works perfectly!"
• "I have mobility and the chair wheel has run over cord many times to no negative effect."
• "The wire is super durable and connects snugly into every pair of headphones I've used."
• "This is an amazing cord, I've ran over the female side of it with my office chair on accident and it hasn't even dented it looks like nothing happened."
• "I plug my headphones in and out of the female side daily and over a year later it is still holding up."
• "Like other AmazonBasics items, the quality is on point for the price and the product works just as well as the similar items for twice the price."
• "I would buy again but these will probably outlast my PC."

Cons:

• "I tripped on it once or twice and my vacuum cleaner got it a few times and it died."
• "Total junk."
• "The female earphone jack on the extension cable started to get intermittent and eventually failed."
• "Just regular use in an indoor room and this cable has audio cutting out/ crackling."
• "I can now no longer recommend them, for build quality is too poor."
• "Fragile cable. Crap. After a few weeks of use and not that heavy the left channel would go out and you could jiggle at the male end and get it back till it would go out again."
• "Broke in less than 90 days, won’t play audio."

Customer Service

Pros:

• "This time I asked for my money back, and of course now I DO have to go to the trouble to ship their garbage back to them."
• "They issued me a refund without me having to return it so it wasn’t too much of a loss. more just a waste of my time and money."
• "I submitted a refund request with Amazon and they didn't even want it back."
• "Naturally, I initiated a return, and Amazon offered to ship me a brand new one free of charge, and helpfully they said I didn't even have to return the defective cable."
• "And since it is an Amazon brand, I would really recommend due to their usually great customer service."
• "You never know with AmazonBasics, but I think their quality is getting better and better as time goes on."
• "Amazon offered to send another."

Cons:

• "Trying to get a replacement but Amazon making me jump through multiple hoops to 'troubleshoot' a BROKEN ITEM."
• "I don't know how to contact Amazon about a warranty as this is an Amazon Basics product."
• "I am done with Amazon Basics products. RAISE YOUR STANDARDS, Amazon!"
• "However, it quit working after three days."
• "There is a terrible, and I mean TERRIBLE feedback, and distortion coming from the cord."
• "Sadly, this is going into the trash."
• "Product was dead on arrival."