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Marco Leavitt · April 4th, 2005, 07:22 AM

I ordered a stereo miniplug to 2 x RCA cable from A2ZCables specifically to connect my mixer to an XL1s. When I got to the soundcheck, I was only getting one channel. When I got home I double checked it -- still only getting one channel. After about 20 minutes of fiddling with it, suddenly it starts working perfectly. My first thought was that maybe there is a crack in the solder somewhere, but when I twist the wire slightly the signal doesn't click on and off like you usually get with a bad connection. It appears to be working just fine. My other thought is maybe there was oil on the connectors from the factory and with all of my playing with it, enough rubbed for the cable to work. Has anyone else ever experienced this? Can I trust this cable? I'm inclined to send the damn thing back, but I don't know what to tell them now that it's working fine. It's a really nice Belden cable too. The shoot's this weekend and I'd really like to use this cable, but I don't know if I can trust it.

Rob Lohman · April 4th, 2005, 08:15 AM

I'm not sure I would still trust that cable. Have you tried contacting
them and explaining what has happened? Perhaps it is a known
thing or they can tell you what is going on. Especially the more
expensive brands usually swap troubled parts to keep their
customers happy (I don't know the Belden brand myself).

April 4th, 2005, 07:22 AM	#1
Marco Leavitt Inner Circle Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Albany, NY 12210 Posts: 2,652	Mystery cable I ordered a stereo miniplug to 2 x RCA cable from A2ZCables specifically to connect my mixer to an XL1s. When I got to the soundcheck, I was only getting one channel. When I got home I double checked it -- still only getting one channel. After about 20 minutes of fiddling with it, suddenly it starts working perfectly. My first thought was that maybe there is a crack in the solder somewhere, but when I twist the wire slightly the signal doesn't click on and off like you usually get with a bad connection. It appears to be working just fine. My other thought is maybe there was oil on the connectors from the factory and with all of my playing with it, enough rubbed for the cable to work. Has anyone else ever experienced this? Can I trust this cable? I'm inclined to send the damn thing back, but I don't know what to tell them now that it's working fine. It's a really nice Belden cable too. The shoot's this weekend and I'd really like to use this cable, but I don't know if I can trust it.

April 4th, 2005, 08:15 AM	#2
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	I'm not sure I would still trust that cable. Have you tried contacting them and explaining what has happened? Perhaps it is a known thing or they can tell you what is going on. Especially the more expensive brands usually swap troubled parts to keep their customers happy (I don't know the Belden brand myself). __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors