m1dg3t I sourced them from www.takefiveaudio.com/



These guys have been great to me over the years, from building power cords to rewiring a tonearm :toast:



Bummed they don't carry 4s11any longer as I need to make a couple more sets of speaker cables...



1/4 TRS? Mostly 'pro' stuff you're using then?

It depends with what I use the thing. I create and repair many things... also proaudio. Those just are really rugged and available without stress, very nicely done and designed to be used roughly... The worst thing you can have is a crack from a jack during a concert. It is inexcusable :D. Just a matter of making it like tool.I use a properly modded X-FI HD USB mostly for measuring other devices... it is cheap and thus not afraid to burn it out, decent ADC. I have killed many devices while working - that's layf... Easy to debug most problems without using more serious and expensive spectrum analyzers for fighting noise anomalies etc things.Also... USB is a really shitty[read noisy] thing for audio actually... especially if the device is powered from the same port. Any USB radio containing device needs a USB isolator... or use it from batteries... if you plug it to the mains(like charging or using a PC) then the fun starts and you cannot measure two devices, there are many kind of distortion ringing in the rails. There are cheap ADuM4160 based devices for hispeed, pop it a bluetooth dongle even in it and it will work much more better due to enormously lower noise floor. RTL-SDR any other devices use them as a must... Full Speed isolators are expensive thou.Here a pic from some shitty USB dac... one with and one without isolation. You will get the idea how things work. It is not about the averaged percentage of noise(that actually looks still good in the table)... but about them harmonic spikes in the graphs... Most sound card reviewers should be put in line and shot :D They don't understand a thing and usually believe in imaginary friends(right/mellow/airy/transparent sound).