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Post by lowlou on Sept 25, 2024 11:44:49 GMT -6
Klotz pre-made for the TRS patchbay, Gotham gac3 DIY with Seetronic connectors for the rest of the studio !
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Post by doubledog on Sept 28, 2024 9:43:32 GMT -6
It looks like the "deal" listing is delivering out to late October now, so it's uncertain if it will actually arrive. I had a similar situation with Amazon where a 3rd party "partner" kept pushing the delivery date back, and after 3 of those I cancelled. mine show they shipped "early" (whatever...) and will be here by end of week. Tbh, I had already forgotten! They smell like Chinese rubber, but I did a quick check with a continuity tester and they all checked out. Even the connectors were still fairly tight. Have not actually tried them in use. I think they will mostly end up in my live gigs bucket, but I don't think you can go wrong for $1.30 ea (after tax) for a 12 ft cable. |
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Post by thehightenor on Sept 28, 2024 12:20:14 GMT -6
I've null tested cheap unbranded cable against my Mogami and Van Damme OFC balanced cables.
And using line level signal I got a total null to 100% silence - no surprise there.
For guitar signals I use Evidence Audio solid core cable for the my pedal board and their Lyric solid core guitar cables (not cheap!)
For mic level signals I'm now using Vovox solid core cables and they seem to provide a superb quality performance.
For line level it's Mogami and Van Damme - all connectors are Neutrik.
So even though I've used a good quality branded cable for all my line level signals - my null testing didn't actually support coming to that conclusion.
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Post by smashlord on Sept 28, 2024 12:35:51 GMT -6
A balanced cable is a balanced cable. I've seen enough people testing various cables where they will null down to like -100dB or some ridiculous non concerning level. What you lose out on with cheaper cables is the reliability and ability to fix them (usually molded). I have mostly Mogami and Canara snakes, but a couple Hosa, too. Hosa sounds fine but the DB25 connectors get wonky and unreliable over time with no way to fix them other than lopping off the connector and putting on a new one.
There are far better things to spend your money on... like a good lunch.
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Post by bossanova on Oct 3, 2024 20:44:26 GMT -6
Wow… I finally got the notice that my GLS cables are shipping. I still wonder what happened there, but I’m paying a little over a dollar a cable so as long as they don’t catch on fire, I’m OK with it.
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Post by svart on Oct 4, 2024 12:53:05 GMT -6
I wonder if it's because they have a lot of odd length cables? 12ft is too long to be a patch cable, but it's too short to be used as much else and they're too thick to be bundled together as a snake.
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Post by EmRR on Oct 6, 2024 11:31:35 GMT -6
Funny enough in the old days Radio Shack carried a TRS cable that was actually Canare L4E6S with Canare connectors. Need pics of that! |
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Post by ericn on Oct 6, 2024 12:26:23 GMT -6
Funny enough in the old days Radio Shack carried a TRS cable that was actually Canare L4E6S with Canare connectors. Need pics of that! I wish I still had them, but Here is an even more interesting one that I have mentioned before, one of the manufacturers of those on demand pain med pumps used in hospitals ships them with a TRS Canare cable 😎 |
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