Can anyone recommend a short 3.5mm right angled jack lead to protect my vertical headphone jack ?

i keep damaging headphones where the male vertical jack catches, bends and breaks the connection.all the jacks i have found either have poor reviews or 1 meter cables.
any short right angled jack advice greatly appreciated

Once you get this TOSLink cable, you might consider buying this Gefen "Digital Audio to Analog Audio Converter".  It takes the optical (fiber) cable in or RCA digital in... and gives you an RCA stereo analog output.  Of course, it's not digital anymore, but it's great for getting clean sound out of a laptop and into an analog application.
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