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afterlife2

afterlife2

Audioholic Warlord
☕Oh got this last week like new Technics SL-DD33 Fully Auto with Repeat functions.:)
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:pCame with a like new Shure Elliptical cartridge for less than $30! ;););)Nice and clean now.:cool:
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
What about that transaction is illegal??

BTW, the eBay ad made NO claims to being "Made in USA." All it said was that they used genuine Cardas interconnect cable and never mentioned that *it* is made in USA.
How could it be "made in USA"?
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
See the video posted above. The cable stock itself is made in USA, that's all I'm saying. The finished cable with terminations added, is not completed here.
A Darko video I generally would avoid, does this one actually employ facts? Even if components and labor were made in US (do we know that as far as component materials go?), how does the shipment to China, additional labor for assembly and return to US still qualify as being able to import it marked Made in USA?
 
KenM10759

KenM10759

Audioholic Samurai
A Darko video I generally would avoid, does this one actually employ facts? Even if components and labor were made in US (do we know that as far as component materials go?), how does the shipment to China, additional labor for assembly and return to US still qualify as being able to import it marked Made in USA?
Geez, you don't seem to get it at all. It's only the cable STOCK that's marked made in USA. Nothing about the delivered product is claimed as being that.

The video shows the OWNERS of Cardas and the manufacturers they use which are all here in the US, and I'm simply emphasizing the quality of the Cardas stock
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
Geez, you don't seem to get it at all. It's only the cable STOCK that's marked made in USA. Nothing about the delivered product is claimed as being that.

The video shows the OWNERS of Cardas and the manufacturers they use which are all here in the US, and I'm simply emphasizing the quality of the Cardas stock
If a product arrives in the US marked that way, it's not proper and in the old days would engender a marking violation pretty quick (they don't want imported items arriving as marked Made in USA). Might depend on the import declaration, if they filed as country of origin as China it might sail thru (especially if sent small parcel style, very few of those get high scrutiny). So they mill their own copper and just need assembly elsewhere? I wouldn't put it past a cable charlatan like Cardas to cheat in any case.
 
KenM10759

KenM10759

Audioholic Samurai
If a product arrives in the US marked that way, it's not proper and in the old days would engender a marking violation pretty quick (they don't want imported items arriving as marked Made in USA). Might depend on the import declaration, if they filed as country of origin as China it might sail thru (especially if sent small parcel style, very few of those get high scrutiny). So they mill their own copper and just need assembly elsewhere? I wouldn't put it past a cable charlatan like Cardas to cheat in any case.
Beat the dead horse a little more: The package was clearly marked "Made In China". The tracking clearly showed "released from customs." I bought knowing it is made in China using an American-made cable stock.

I do not consider Cardas to be a "cable charlatan", if you watched the video the owner was quite clear in saying something to the effect of 'if you hear a difference and like it buy it. If not, don't buy it'.

All I'm saying in this case is that it's quality cable and for $36 it's as good as the cheapest cable my dealer had which was $324.
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
Beat the dead horse a little more: The package was clearly marked "Made In China". The tracking clearly showed "released from customs." I bought knowing it is made in China using an American-made cable stock.

I do not consider Cardas to be a "cable charlatan", if you watched the video the owner was quite clear in saying something to the effect of 'if you hear a difference and like it buy it. If not, don't buy it'.

All I'm saying in this case is that it's quality cable and for $36 it's as good as the cheapest cable my dealer had which was $324.
Missed your saying the packaging was marked Made in China, you said Made in USA....Cardas is a charlatan wire company, tho. They all say JUST LISTEN hoping you'll hear something that isn't there. If your dealer only had $324 cable, then he's just a charlatan himself.

BJC does that with HDMI cables. They ship the raw wire there to make the terminations and ship them back to sell as the labor costs provide a savings. Weird is right.
How are those marked for country of origin?
 
KenM10759

KenM10759

Audioholic Samurai
Missed your saying the packaging was marked Made in China, you said Made in USA....Cardas is a charlatan wire company, tho. They all say JUST LISTEN hoping you'll hear something that isn't there. If your dealer only had $324 cable, then he's just a charlatan himself.



How are those marked for country of origin?
You don't know anything about my dealer. They are the furthest thing from what you think. If you re-read my post, all I said was that the cable stock itself was made in USA, but the cables are terminated and shipped from China. Cardas is NOT what you say either. They simply strive to assure customers that their cable is of premium oxygen free copper, and they pay two other extrusion vendors good money to wrap that pure copper wire of theirs in proper insulating jackets for each job. Just about anyone replacing the 33ga twisted tonearm wires knows Cardas.

Some of us (me) like wire that is at least minimally assured to be of good quality and looks attractive with expensive components and speakers. If you don't care about those things and simple wire is a good enough connection for you, fine...use it. I have plenty of Monoprice 12ga and 14ga wire around here, plenty of $3.60 interconnects with plastic coated RCA plugs. I'm well aware of what works, and also willing to spend 10x that ($36!) to get something nicer.

When you get to using XLR cables, the differences in the connectors can be vast. These showed good ones, and they are. I have 1m and a cheaper pair of 1.5m XLR cables. The shorter ones cost $12 off Amazon and have nice connectors, the longer ones from a different Amazon seller are total crap and are going back. Can I just be happy about getting reasonably good quality, nice-looking, inexpensive cables without negative commentary?
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
You don't know anything about my dealer. They are the furthest thing from what you think. If you re-read my post, all I said was that the cable stock itself was made in USA, but the cables are terminated and shipped from China. Cardas is NOT what you say either. They simply strive to assure customers that their cable is of premium oxygen free copper, and they pay two other extrusion vendors good money to wrap that pure copper wire of theirs in proper insulating jackets for each job. Just about anyone replacing the 33ga twisted tonearm wires knows Cardas.

Some of us (me) like wire that is at least minimally assured to be of good quality and looks attractive with expensive components and speakers. If you don't care about those things and simple wire is a good enough connection for you, fine...use it. I have plenty of Monoprice 12ga and 14ga wire around here, plenty of $3.60 interconnects with plastic coated RCA plugs. I'm well aware of what works, and also willing to spend 10x that ($36!) to get something nicer.

When you get to using XLR cables, the differences in the connectors can be vast. These showed good ones, and they are. I have 1m and a cheaper pair of 1.5m XLR cables. The shorter ones cost $12 off Amazon and have nice connectors, the longer ones from a different Amazon seller are total crap and are going back. Can I just be happy about getting reasonably good quality, nice-looking, inexpensive cables without negative commentary?
Nonsense, either the cable is adequate or it isn't. If aesthetics are meaningful to you, that's different from the charlatan claims of audible differences in any case (mostly what I object to....aesthetics I have little need for).
 
highfigh

highfigh

Seriously, I have no life.
Very cool! Which model Fender is that Squire modeled after?
It's part of the Squire Paranormal line, called Offset Telecaster. It's a Jazzmaster body with Telecaster neck, pickups, hardware and a new pickguard.

I have seen, played and set up many Squire guitars- the one common thing was that some of the hardware was crap and this one is no different- the tuners were terrible, so I changed them yesterday. That completely changed it.
 
highfigh

highfigh

Seriously, I have no life.
IMO, people need to learn to terminate their own cables. Cable and ends can be bought in bulk, by the foot, or in custom lengths- people could buy it in bulk as a group and save a whole lot of money and then pick the ends they prefer, but the DIY gene seems to have omitted soldering as a skill.
 
KenM10759

KenM10759

Audioholic Samurai
IMO, people need to learn to terminate their own cables. Cable and ends can be bought in bulk, by the foot, or in custom lengths- people could buy it in bulk as a group and save a whole lot of money and then pick the ends they prefer, but the DIY gene seems to have omitted soldering as a skill.
I do that with speaker cables, no soldering required with BJC's locking banana plugs or the nice spade terminals I bought off Amazon. I have a couple of soldering stations for electronics, they're not ideal for bigger connectors like XLR.
 
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highfigh

highfigh

Seriously, I have no life.
I do that with speaker cables, no soldering required with BJC's locking banana plugs or the nice spade terminals I bought off Amazon. I have a couple of following stations for electronics, they're not ideal for bigger connectors like XLR.
I have a set of 'helping hands' with a magnifier and it works great for larger plugs & jacks. They're cheap and screwing it onto a piece of wood makes it hard to tip.
 
KenM10759

KenM10759

Audioholic Samurai
I have a set of 'helping hands' with a magnifier and it works great for larger plugs & jacks. They're cheap and screwing it onto a piece of wood makes it hard to tip.
Fixed my typo, damn autocorrupt on phones!

I also have one of those helper things with 5 separate alligator clips on flexible stalks and a magnifier on one as well.
 
Alex2507

Alex2507

Audioholic Slumlord
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