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"George Gleason" wrote:

"Walt" wrote in message
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Arny Krueger wrote:
"Walt" wrote
Arny Krueger wrote:
"Walt" wrote


I've seen hundreds, perhaps thousands of broken
Neutrik XLR connectors.

Run over by what, a M1 Abrams tank?

Stepped on by musicians or stage hands mostly. For patch
cables the Neutrik connector is OK, but for mic cables
they break with "normal" usage. I'm surprised you
haven't seen this phenomenon.

You're actually the first person I've heard of who has seen a broken
Neutrik

Not that I haven't seen broken cables with Neutriks on them, just
that its not the connector that gets broken.


Hmmmm. Anybody else ever had a Neutrik XLR connector break on them? In my
experience the plastic screw-on strain relief at the rear of the connector
cracks and breaks fairly easily. I can't believe I'm the only person to
have seen this.

//Walt

there are Neutrick and Neurtick like designs
I have never had a fail with a genuine neutric and I own thousands of them,
in heavy use on live stages
I have also maybe a hundred of the "neutrick like" connectors and damn
nearly every one has failed at the back cap
it cracks and can no longer be tightened
these were standard issue on Junk I bought from companys like Proel and any
"ebay" snake
Just becuse it looks like and assebles like neutrick doesn't mean it is a
neutrick
George

My 1.5 cents worth...

I haven't seen any broken Neutrik XLR connectors in perhaps 8 years.

This may be partly because I swore off using them anywhere I had a say
in the matter about 10 years ago!

To be totally honest though, I will admit that I do run across Neutriks
in service, and it's been quite a while since I've seen a broken
one...maybe they've gotten better since I got ****ed off at them years
ago for breaking at the collet and/or collet ring.

Now their bantam patchcords are another story....studio bought 50 or 75
of them, and within 2 years they began failing. We've tossed more than
half of them by now (10 years). Haven't had more than one or two of the
Switchcraft ones fail in that same period.

Chestek

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