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Review on πŸ”Š FosPower 10ft Digital Audio Coaxial Cable with 24K Gold Plated Connectors - High-Quality RCA Male to Male Cable for Home Theater, HDTV, Subwoofer, and Hi-Fi Systems by Mayrando Clark

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Bought two 1ft, two 3ft and two 6ft cables - loose connectors/poor shielding/poor contact

At first these cables looked and felt like great quality. However, all 6 different length cables I've purchased had the braided shield and Mylar coated 75 ohm cables cut too short, so those few layers of 75 ohm cable weren't even attached to the cable. Plug as is normally made for a secure and powerful plug connection where the core of the cable is attached to the plug. The plug's visible orange shell is plastic and has "molded" threads in it, and it is onto these plastic threads that the plug's solid, threaded metal outer cover, the orange plastic thread, screws. I was wondering why the connectors on the ends of the cables felt so loose and "wobbly" (for lack of a better word, sorry), and when I unscrewed the outer metal cover/port cover to check the build quality, I was able to It's easy to see why the connectors seemed to be poorly attached - when several layers of the 75 ohm cable were stripped to expose the inner wire so it could be attached to the connector's center pin, inner mylar and braided shield. The wire layers of the cable were stripped too far back and didn't reach the point of compression to secure them in the connector - all those top layers of mylar, plastic, braided shield, etc. have been stripped back enough to bend the cable even a little you can see where they end up at a point just inside the end of the orange plastic area "strain relief" is NOT GOOD! This of course means that neither the coated Mylar shielding nor the braided shielding is connected to the outer "ring" portion of the connector surrounding the pin, meaning that these cables do not have a shield/ground for the outer shield of the Cables between the 2 provide parts of the mechanics that you want to connect to that cable. I spent more on these FosPower cables because I expected a top quality product, but in the end I had to ditch these FosPower cables and order a couple of Monoprice cables which are much better built and properly protected, fully shielded ones Connections on the outside have part. Connectors and Monoprice cables work great between my CD player and DAC with HIGH signal bandwidth, while Monoprice cables are only 25% the price of these FosPower cables. Usually FosPower is a great product and I picked it first but not this time so I don't know what happened to quality control for this particular product.

Pros
  • audio and video accessories
Cons
  • not reliable