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I ordered four 25' XLRm to XLRf cables last week and they arrived this morning. Which is pretty impressive when you consider I used the cheapest shipping option (surface), which their website states takes four to six weeks.

Anyway, I've tested all four and I'm pleased to say they all sound very good. Certainly as good as any of the other, more expensive, cables I have.

:)
 
I ordered a few mic cables and s 8 rca to 8 1/4 snake and received them. The workmanship looks decent, but I haven't had a chance to test them out yet.

I do have a question about the snake though. All 8 connectors are on both ends, but there is a single cable hanging out both ends of the snake, the cable is smaller than those used for the actual connectors and the ends are stripped just a tad and they're just chillin'. Anyone know wtf this is about?
 
That's what I thought at first, but I don't think it's the same guage as the rest of the cables. I'll snap a pick of it when I get home tonight and post it.
 
I've said this before...I've bought mic cables from them before and I think that they are still a pretty nice value. However, I have had a couple of their cables go bad which I'm marking up to workmanship since the failures have been related to the soldering work done at the connectors. The materials are pretty good stuff.

I would encourage you to open the connectors and inspect them. I have found that with at least with a few of my cables that some of the conductors had the insulation stripped back too far. Over time the cable became relaxed inside the cover and the exposed conductors touched over to other pins. Not the end of the world but if inspect them now, you could save yourself some grief later.
 
Okay, I had a look at the connections and found one strand of wire from one lead had somehow been soldered to another connector.

So I cut it off :)

The insulation looked fine on all eight.

Not bad for the equivalent of £2.50 per cable :D
 
Hang on there pardner :eek:

Shield(ground) should be connected to pin #1 AND the funky looking connection with no external pin or socket. This connection makes contact with the plug housing and acts to compelete the shield. Red should go to pin #2 and white or sometimes black should go to pin 3.

If you look at the connector from the pins you'll see tiny numbers marked on the insulator material.

Get that soldering iron out :D you've got work to do. What I was referring to was one of the signal wires had too much insulation stripped back...so much so that the signal wire (RED or White/Black) had fallen over and made contact with one of the other connections and shorted the cable out.
 
It was a strand from the ground. I removed it.

And I don't do soldering.

I also don't use condensers. It's a personal rule.
 
All the ground wires were connected to the appropriate pins. Both of them.
 
Mark7 said:
It was a strand from the ground. I removed it.

And I don't do soldering.

I also don't use condensers. It's a personal rule.
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LOL :D


Glad it all worked out!
 
Rechecked and there's no more than a millimetre of wire exposed on any of the signal wires. And they all go to the right connector.

FTW :cool:
 
It's just a quick quality control thing everyone can do and it just takes a second. I do it with all my new cables and rebuildable patch cords. Nothing worse than sitting down to get something done and then when the pressure's on you go ummm....what the #$%#^!
 
So is it possible that my situation (as posted above) is a wire that some jerky forgot to solder to a connection? I'll check it out once I get home. IF that's the case I'mma QQ irl :mad:
 
Have you checked the connector nearest the "spare" wire?
 
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