yea a year or so ago, I picked up a pair from tzd, and they sucked, terrible cracking sounds while the game was on, and I had to fiddle with it to get the picture on.
After getting this, I went back to my original ones and cut the tips off and rewired them through SNES AV's and now they work PERFECT.
what exactly is wrong with your original set of AV's?
TurboSage