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You get what you pay for.
So, an unbeatable price and the usual prompt and efficient Thomann service, but I did have a few issues with the product.
The first is with the labeling and I mention this because even though this is a very keenly priced product, it really wouldn't have cost any more to do this better. The lesser issue is the numbering of the XLRs at he 'tail end' - it would have been nice to underline the '6' and the '9' to differentiate between them, but the bigger and more annoying issue is the labeling on the stage box; very small, very dark grey numbers on a black background! I'm guessing that whoever made that decision has never had to re-plug on a dark stage.
The cable that arrived sadly also had a fault; the pin 1 connection was open circuit on one of the cores. Rather than go to the trouble of returning the item, I fixed this myself which entailed opening up the connector and stage box. This revealed a couple of things. Although the fault was not at the tail end, the soldering in the connector was quite poor (quite a lot of exposed copper in there), so I will have to open those up and check them all. However the I traced the fault to the stage box. The connectors in there are mounted on two PCBs with the cables soldered onto those and the missing screen connection had never been connected and was simply floating around. An easy fix, but, I think, indicative of lax quality control. Again the general internal wiring was quite 'messy' and all of the pin 1 (screen) connections are 'commoned'.
So my conclusions; OK for the price, but carry a soldering iron, test it carefully and treat it gently.
The first is with the labeling and I mention this because even though this is a very keenly priced product, it really wouldn't have cost any more to do this better. The lesser issue is the numbering of the XLRs at he 'tail end' - it would have been nice to underline the '6' and the '9' to differentiate between them, but the bigger and more annoying issue is the labeling on the stage box; very small, very dark grey numbers on a black background! I'm guessing that whoever made that decision has never had to re-plug on a dark stage.
The cable that arrived sadly also had a fault; the pin 1 connection was open circuit on one of the cores. Rather than go to the trouble of returning the item, I fixed this myself which entailed opening up the connector and stage box. This revealed a couple of things. Although the fault was not at the tail end, the soldering in the connector was quite poor (quite a lot of exposed copper in there), so I will have to open those up and check them all. However the I traced the fault to the stage box. The connectors in there are mounted on two PCBs with the cables soldered onto those and the missing screen connection had never been connected and was simply floating around. An easy fix, but, I think, indicative of lax quality control. Again the general internal wiring was quite 'messy' and all of the pin 1 (screen) connections are 'commoned'.
So my conclusions; OK for the price, but carry a soldering iron, test it carefully and treat it gently.
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Here you get what you pay for. A real anaconda that will struggle to strangle you while carrying, because the PVC is not so mendable. Also the copperwires are very vulnerable, I counted only 4 or 5 threads of copper comprising each individual cord. Be prepared to solder!
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Just received it. Looks ok.. The metal box is ok. The cable tho... I don't really know how long it will last. The Individual cores inside are NOT thick. The thick part is only what you see in the picture. I bet that after a few applies in real environment that it will begin to have issues from the placement and packaging process and probably some cores will stop to work. Cheap but the smaller version of 8 ins that i have bought some time ago has better core cables by far!!
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