It would easily produce a winner as long as you had long term processes in place to ensure continued production quality from suppliers.
I think a way to differentiate the cables would be to use U.S.-sourced parts. So instead of Neutrik connectors, use Amphenol or Switchcraft, which are every bit as good as Neutrik. For cable, use Belden, which is every bit as good as Canare or Mogami.
I meant my above post to reply to Buckeye Amp’s post quoted here.
Like to many of the "major" cable players I tried to find a cable from, BJC from their unbalanced->balanced cable website: "...pins 1 and 3 of the XLR are bridged". Which to my understanding and confirmed by Benchmark, provides an opportunity for shield/chassis ground loop currents to get into the audio path.
Wow that one is actually pinned correctly (but no mention of being twisted pair unless I missed it).
Oh they offer all options. You just need to call. They custom build cables to suit.
Understood. Just that I expected their standard RCA unbalanced to XLR balanced cable offering, specifically configured for this use case, to not have pins 1 and 3 tied together:
Perhaps their experience is more valuable to them than the confusing description from that Hypex article. Particularly when either bridged or “lifted” seems to work.
That is the usual configuration for unbalanced-to-balanced connections (short pin 3 - to pin 1 ground/shield). For balanced-to-unbalanced it is usual to leave XLR pin 3 open (floating) to avoid shorting the XLR's output driver. But the best solution depends upon the transmitting (source) and receiving (load) circuit design, and that is often unknown by the consumer.
Great, love that amp stack! Hope you sell a crap load!
I'm sure there will be when he posts again as he said he would go back later to listen. Does it really matter though?
