So...a few months ago, I ordered one of Monoprice's Dark Matter gaming headsets for my grandson. Not very high quality, but good enough for his needs. My stupid fckn dog (~60 lb, 14 month old labradoodle puppy) jumped on the kids bed...and stepped on the headphone cord where it plugged into his Playstation controller. <SNAP> Broke the TRRS connector. (fortunately, it didn't break completely off inside the controller.) Contacted Monoprice to buy a replacement cable, (this one has the volume/mute controller in-line) Nope...they don't sell them separately.
BUT, they were willing to RMA the entire headset once I sent his in. Because he uses his daily, rather than have him be without, I bought a new headset for him, then sent the "old" one in for RMA. It arrived today. I gotta say, connected to my FiiO K5 pro amp, they don't sound terrible...MUCH better than through the motherboard's sound chip) and for $20...I have a spare headset., should for some stupid reason, I decide I want to play games on-line and need a microphone. (highly unlikely)