I often help my neighbor with his gigs. The guy is a great keyboardist but is nearly clueless about PA gear. Cable care is one of those areas where he really frustrates me. He can't wind cables worth a damn and he never bothers to inspect them. He has many cheap cables with old style connectors that utilize tiny screws to hold them together. Many of these screws are loose and sometimes even missing so there is nearly no remaining strain relief. This leads to many of his cable failures. The other day I when I helped him, I had a different problem that was a first for me. He had an intermittent which I normally attribute to broken solder joints or fraying of the small conductors. This wasn't either of those problems. This time the XLR female sockets were too loose.
The cable is a brand called Strukture (yes, with a "k") which is easily found on Amazon. The cable itself is decent. It has a nice hand (aka feel), good shielding and cotton filler to hold the conductors in place within the cable jacket. The lack of dirt and abrasion on the cables indicate minimal usage. The soldering of the conductors to the connector was perfectly fine too. They just chose to use really cheap connectors. The connector itself had no identifiable marks. All I can say is that it wasn't a Switchcraft, Amphenol or Neutrik. I had to replace the female end. The male end showed considerable oxidation but still made decent connections. Based on what I saw here, I would avoid Strukture cables.
The cable is a brand called Strukture (yes, with a "k") which is easily found on Amazon. The cable itself is decent. It has a nice hand (aka feel), good shielding and cotton filler to hold the conductors in place within the cable jacket. The lack of dirt and abrasion on the cables indicate minimal usage. The soldering of the conductors to the connector was perfectly fine too. They just chose to use really cheap connectors. The connector itself had no identifiable marks. All I can say is that it wasn't a Switchcraft, Amphenol or Neutrik. I had to replace the female end. The male end showed considerable oxidation but still made decent connections. Based on what I saw here, I would avoid Strukture cables.