mine was fine until the rubber flaked away near the left port. cut it open because it was basicly worthless anyway. its a ton of thicker (looked silver by weight and color, but probably nickel/chrom plated copper?) wires around some cotton and then 2 single really tiny silver wires for signal. build quallity is not the best i might say. considering that those cables where 300 bucks solo at launch when most random sub 100 solutions have about the same quality... yikes