oh absolutely, you're totally correct---I have no doubts that the motorola piece is fine---works first time and with everything else. No question, its not my reciever either---just for giggles I hooked the record player (with the impact cable) directly into the motorola gateway and still heard absolutely nothing through the headphones (no surprises there). What I don't get is what the problem is with the cable. Maybe I"m just beating a REALLY dead horse here, but shouldn't the cables (regardless of price), just transmit the sound regardless of frequency or bandwidth or anything else? I could see if I was using the interconnects as speaker cables or vice versa, then no sound would make sense--but I'm using a quality product for its intended purpose...oh well, such is life