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<blockquote data-quote="Geoff Doane" data-source="post: 147827" data-attributes="member: 1155">Re: Short in XLR shield ?You don&#039;t have a &quot;short&quot; pin on one XLR or the other that isn&#039;t making contact, do you?&nbsp; I&#039;ve only seen it happen once, but a pin somehow became displaced in the insert, and no longer made contact.&nbsp; The same thing might happen at the female end of the cable too.&nbsp; Although once you disassembled the connectors I would think this defect would be obvious.&nbsp; I also agree that it&#039;s very unlikely that a Canare Star Quad cable could be stretched enough to break the shield without also breaking the inner conductors.The weirdest cable defect that I&#039;ve seen was AES foil shield cable that had random shorts between one conductor or the other and the shield.&nbsp; They were all near the inside of the spool (where the wire was rather squirrely anyway) and seemed to occur where a kink in the wire pushed through the insulation.&nbsp; It resulted in rather time consuming repairs to a mic splitter before it could be used.GTD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geoff Doane, post: 147827, member: 1155"] Re: Short in XLR shield ? You don't have a "short" pin on one XLR or the other that isn't making contact, do you? I've only seen it happen once, but a pin somehow became displaced in the insert, and no longer made contact. The same thing might happen at the female end of the cable too. Although once you disassembled the connectors I would think this defect would be obvious. I also agree that it's very unlikely that a Canare Star Quad cable could be stretched enough to break the shield without also breaking the inner conductors. The weirdest cable defect that I've seen was AES foil shield cable that had random shorts between one conductor or the other and the shield. They were all near the inside of the spool (where the wire was rather squirrely anyway) and seemed to occur where a kink in the wire pushed through the insulation. It resulted in rather time consuming repairs to a mic splitter before it could be used. GTD [/QUOTE]

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