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★★★★☆
Pretty Good cable. Liked it better than Mediabridge
Its a pretty good cable. I bought the cable to replace my Fidelio X1 cable. I did some ohm measurements and found that the tip(left channel) and ground both had really low resistance around 0.2 ohms. The center lead, right channel, had 0.6ohms. whats 0.3ohms..right?! well its 3 times the resistance of the other channel. I would expect a cable this short to have better balance. They advertise being PRO cables, but at this price.. i guess you can't really believe that. overall, its cheap and it gets the job done. You probably can't hear the difference unless you've heard that song a million times with a better cable/setup. Update: So I also bought the Zeskit 4 foot cable and the 12 foot extension, Media Bridge 12foot cable, KabelDirekt 3foot cable and 10 foot extension. Here is how I place them: Zeskit > KabelDirekt > Mediabridge. As far as construction, all the brands are about equal with KabelDirekt being less prone to tangle because of the thicker rubber/plastic material. Zeskit and KabelDirect were about equal in audio signal production with Zeskit just a hair cleaner. The differences were very small. Zeskit had lower balanced resistance. The 4foot cable was 0.4ohms, 0.2ohms, 0.1 ohms from tip to ground. With the extension it was an even 1ohm for tip and center, and 0.3ohms for the ground. KabelDirekt for the 3foot cable was 0.6, 0.3, and 0.2 ohms for the ground. With the extension, the tip was 1.1, center 1.2, and ground was 0.4 ohms. Lastly, Mediabridge had some distortion in some songs and TV shows I watched. The 12foot cable was 1.3ohms, 1.2ohms, 0.8ohm ground. Now maybe the cable I received was a dud, and that thats too bad. Bass was loose and treble was grainy. It also made my left earcup of the headphone warm. Switching to KabelDirekt, there was an immediate "OK, thats much better." Then testing the Zeskit I was more, "OH yeah, thats it." For Zeskit being 4feet longer than MediaBridge and 3feet longer than KabelDirekt, resistance test fared better by being lower and balanced. I hope that was helpful. =)
March 2015 · Electronics · verified purchase
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