GEEKRIA3.5mm (1/8") Stereo Male to 2.5mm Balanced Female Headphone Plug Adapter, Converts Audio Plug Compatible Player Amplifier Etc.

with a 3.5mm plug. sound may not be true balanced but the output is far better and helps us oldies get a bit better volume. sound quality is very decent with my focal cans.

As previously mentioned in the top reviews, if you're planning on using this with an iFi Zen DAC with unbalanced headphones to convert from 3.5mm to 4.4mm, you won't have much luck -- I have the HD599SE and experienced some horrid distortion on the highs using this adapter. Although, it came in a nice little leather bag and is well built - I'm inclined to believe I was simply using it for the wrong use case. YMMV!

As the title says. Definitely would buy again but as the quality is brilliant and it just works then I’ll not be buying/replacing soon, sorry but your quality speaks for itself. Thank you.

I use balanced IEMs and this worked for them. A lot of people saying it will not work. No idea why they cannot make it work. From unbalanced to balanced, works well. No drop in audio quality. No distortion or clicking. No interference. It is well made.

great product very pleased

I needed an adaptor to convert my new Ablet HiFi Cable with 2.5 Trrs Balanced Male Compatible with my Sennheiser HD 700 headphones to be able to use the headphones with both my iPod and HiFi system. It avoided me having to return the Ablet cable for credit. I'm very pleased with the quality of the adaptor and the sound quality.

Good price, fantastic build quality. If you need a 4.4 adapter then this will be perfectly fine for 95% of users.

I’ve given it 4 stars Only because it doesn’t work for my specific use case but that’s not really the fault of the connector. I’ve tried to use this to convert from balanced 4.4 to unbalanced headphones at 3.5mm. This was a gamble and I knew it. Although sound does come through the headphones, it’s heavily distorted. This is likely the fault of the Zen DAC and there was no literature that said this was feasible on this DAC. I took the risk.The build quality is fine and it’s worth what they are charging In my opinion based on the rarity of the 4.4mm connector so factoring additional cost of manufacture I think it’s fair.As long as you’re going from 4.4mm to 3.5mm balanced as advertised I think you will be fine but don’t try and use it to go from balanced to unbalanced headphones with it unless you’re happy to gamble the £8.