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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Mortensen" data-source="post: 98564" data-attributes="member: 2826">Re: S16 audio drop outsHi Eric,Thanks for posting your experience with the Cyberpower and a link. I&#039;m using some Extreme Power ones that I got through Juice Goose, and the experience has been not happy overall and getting worse. And they&#039;re more money than Cyberpower.The Ethercons don&#039;t actually connect to the shield, to they? How could the shield connect to the shell? There&#039;s nothing in the instructions indicating that it does.Regarding good cable checkers, from my experience with the workshop, while no reasonable person can expect to afford a good checker (the Fluke one that I had was over $10k) that will really tell you what&#039;s going on with the cable, there is still no substitute for having your stuff looked at with a good checker. The subtleties of CATx cable measurement, which I still don&#039;t fully understand after looking closely for a couple months, are very subtle, and your data integrity depends on them all being correct. A cable is not a cable is not a cable, and it will only get worse as we get into CAT6 and above.I&#039;ve been reading this most recent discussion, and have nothing to add, as my busy season started the day after my AES workshop and I&#039;ve not pursued anything relevant to the issue since then. As I wrote at the time, I&#039;m going analog to the consoles.It&#039;s extremely interesting that the Roland cable works for Roland but apparently not X32, and we really haven&#039;t gotten any information from the sufferers that would help us to know why. To Brian and the other sufferers: finding someone in your neighborhood who has a good tester (IT installers, etc.) and would run tests for you for a fee would be enlightening. You can take good cell phone pics of the screens for each measurement, as I did. We used the Fluke DTX-1800, I think. Each cable testing lasts less than a minute.You want at least that level of measurement, although maybe there is something else that measures as well and at the same level of detail. I don&#039;t know, I only know that one.It shouldn&#039;t cost much to do this, and would be definitive if really trying to find an answer. I hope.Dan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dan Mortensen, post: 98564, member: 2826"] Re: S16 audio drop outs Hi Eric, Thanks for posting your experience with the Cyberpower and a link. I'm using some Extreme Power ones that I got through Juice Goose, and the experience has been not happy overall and getting worse. And they're more money than Cyberpower. The Ethercons don't actually connect to the shield, to they? How could the shield connect to the shell? There's nothing in the instructions indicating that it does. Regarding good cable checkers, from my experience with the workshop, while no reasonable person can expect to afford a good checker (the Fluke one that I had was over $10k) that will really tell you what's going on with the cable, there is still no substitute for having your stuff looked at with a good checker. The subtleties of CATx cable measurement, which I still don't fully understand after looking closely for a couple months, are very subtle, and your data integrity depends on them all being correct. A cable is not a cable is not a cable, and it will only get worse as we get into CAT6 and above. I've been reading this most recent discussion, and have nothing to add, as my busy season started the day after my AES workshop and I've not pursued anything relevant to the issue since then. As I wrote at the time, I'm going analog to the consoles. It's extremely interesting that the Roland cable works for Roland but apparently not X32, and we really haven't gotten any information from the sufferers that would help us to know why. To Brian and the other sufferers: finding someone in your neighborhood who has a good tester (IT installers, etc.) and would run tests for you for a fee would be enlightening. You can take good cell phone pics of the screens for each measurement, as I did. We used the Fluke DTX-1800, I think. Each cable testing lasts less than a minute. You want at least that level of measurement, although maybe there is something else that measures as well and at the same level of detail. I don't know, I only know that one. It shouldn't cost much to do this, and would be definitive if really trying to find an answer. I hope. Dan [/QUOTE]

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