With a robust housing, metall and quality pins, this feels both long lived and gentle on your midi ports.
I don't know if you have noticed but midi connectors have always felt a bit flimsy to me; as you try to jiggle it in from an akward position one does get the feeling that it is almost soft, the pins bend and the housing gets twisted (not that is does, but it feels like that).
These metal ones feels just great and for some reason there are so much easier fitting in the midi socket.
Looks great and uses only the 3 pins that midi need. So if you for some reason want a DIN cable this wont work, but I think that is a good thing.
I will get more of these and phase out my old midi-cables.