George Gleason wrote:
"Walt" wrote
George Gleason wrote:
"Walt" wrote
George Gleason wrote:

Find yourself without one on a gig in bimbuk idaho needing to do feild
service and you will understand
everything is easy when you have the right tools, with neutricks all I
need are my fingers, never leave home without them.

You can solder with just your fingers? I'm impressed.

would you say the majority of cable fails involve a solder joint?

I'd say that the majority of cable repairs involve soldering, regardless
of the failure mode.

i guess this is getting quite pointless though
my point is I find it extreamly unlikely you have "thousands " of failed
neutrik xlrs,

I didn't say I *have* thousands of them, I said that I've *seen*
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of failed neutrik XLR connectors. The true
number is probably somewhere betwen 200 and 500, but I can't say I've
kept an explicit count.

Every single mic cable I've ever owned that had neutrik XLRs on the ends
has failed - somebody steps on the conector, the plastic screw-on
strain relief cracks, and the connector falls apart. I stopped using
them after a couple of dozen, so I've probably only owned about 30
connectors that broke.

Patch cables, and snake ends are a different story, they don't tend to
get stepped on as much.

if you do have thousands of failed neutriks on your hands I will gladly pay
the shipping to take them as neutrik will replace them free of charge

Most of them long since thrown away.

//Walt