I bought this about 18 months ago was happy with it until about 3 months ago when it began to cut out some of the sound. It was heavily distorted through the audio system. This happened with 2 ipods, 1 iphone and 2 different cars, so I do feel this problem to be in the cable. It did perform well for those 15 months, but considering it only sat in my car, in shade, I feel I should have gotten more time out of it. That is why I only gave it a 2 star, not a 3.