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Originally Posted by Mouse
I have Mackenzie XLR interconnects, and my Mc Amp meter is crooked, the right meter is always higher until I swap the cable around, then the left meter is higher. Hopefully the higher end has higher quality control, and hopefully on the lower end the problem is isolated.
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Wow, never experienced that in their cables yet. You can always send them back, even out of warranty, for a fair evaluation and service. Probably just needs re-termination. That is certainly very frustrating, though!
I'm very sensitive to L/R imbalances, and they can creep in anywhere -- especially with tubes, phono cartridges, and room anomalies in the mix. For years I've obsessively played small imbalances off of each other with various L/R swaps, so that they don't meaningfully accumulate, but now I'm starting to REALLY appreciate a well implemented fine-grained balance control (preamp) that doesn't degrade sound quality when engaged. That said, cables are one component that should NEVER have any perceptible imbalance!
Actually I did have a old Wild XLR connector finally lose connection from repeated stress of bending -- A few too many times I tried to fit a 1.0m run into a tight spot (from preamp to monoblock on the other side) where it was too short. The new upper-line RCA and XLR connectors seem to be better about that.