Feels solid and well made, works smoothly. I'm a big fan of braided lines, they tend to last much longer. The price was a bit higher than what I'm used to for consumer electronics cables, but that's what you get when a device has a cable that's so unique that it can't be used with anything else. The only other option really is to wait a month for one of them to arrive from China. One final note: while this looks like the same cable as the old iPhone and iPod cable, it most definitely is NOT. Don't think you can substitute one for the other.