I'm now a Cardas Woman. I used to be a Kimber gal

Does the woman protestth too much. Yes, because queenie's head is as empty as the books she reads. Do I detect yet another male disease stumping, man hating woman among the membership??? Possibly, What next, some quotes and pocket adages from Harry Potter, or the self empowerment movement bibliography; perhaps, Macrobiotics and pilates manual??

Obviously, you have great knowledge of the toys of audio. However, I don't dislike you because you are a woman, even a clawing one, but because basically you are not a nice person. You are arrogant, egotistical, narcissistic, and worse, have no manners.

Several members welcomed your sharing of trial and error IC sampling. Another claimed you championed budget cables, what at collective price of $5000??

You know this hobby brings with it a serious and sometimes lethal element of audio neurvosa, so why stoke the fires of others's potential audio obsession. If you got to preach from the pulpit(or throne which ever self image may fit you) preach moderation and financial self control

Lastly, take a look at Stephen Mejas's articles in Stereophile. He offers readers sound advice on budget cables and components... and not mid-fi shit either. He gets it!! A musician by trade, and part-time audio journalist, he has intelligently and refreshingly considers the proposition, do I really need an $18,000 speaker, or a loom of $12,000 ancillary cables???. (This is a paraphrase of a elegantly stated point)

I am getting tired of this game of verbal badminton, bantering and character assassination. It is pointless and a great waste of time. So if you want to serve the shuttlecock back into my end of court to get even Go ahead, I will have already left the arena

That I respond like you guys do? is that what bothers you? that i am not demure, retiring and passive? Pleasing to men? Seems to be the complaint.

You run away? good for you.
Funny how you fill your comments with insults towards me, then pretend you are not interested in an exchange. i guess you are too much of a coward to actually stand up and have it out. You would rather take a few cheap shots and run away.
Oh yeah, I am arrogant. No problem.I give the same shit I get when morons attack me. When people are nice i am nice.

I learne to be like this from dickheads like 'sunnyahole'.
No problem, works for me.

And i do chapion budget cabling. even while i spend $2,700 (the $5K is retail, not what is out of pocket) And agree I have personally 'moved up' in the world of audio. With $5K each components, I do not have a budget system. So the $5k in cabling is about right.
Especially if i DO buy the next thing I want. which is a $14,500 pair of speakers. At that point, with a $45,000 system, would you spend $2,700 on IC cables?

(I guess Rainydayjimbo would stil be using his free RCA which came with his old $199 turntable. Which is his right. After all, it is also his ears.)

02-18-14: Sunnyjim
You know this hobby brings with it a serious and sometimes lethal element of audio neurvosa, so why stoke the fires of others's potential audio obsession. If you got to preach from the pulpit(or throne which ever self image may fit you) preach moderation and financial self control.

There is no need to snap out at others just because you have emotional issues that you cannot control. That is very immature behavior. You really want to control your audio nervosa? Stop reading glossy rags and audio forums. Just leave the arena as promised. You are not only torturing yourself, you are torturing others with your whiny, sniveling, incessant babbling. Leave the hobby, it is obvious that it is causing you tremendous psychological pain and scarring. Get help, before it's too late.

Does anyone else imagine Sheldons' voice ( from Big Bang Theory) whenever they read SmoggyJims posts?

Getting back to the original subject, Elizabeth I would second Stevecham's earlier suggestion that the 7 meter Parsec might be defective. The Parsec is described as having two conductors surrounded by a braided shield. If the shield is properly connected to pin 1 at both ends, I would expect it to provide an effective ground path.

If you still have that cable, and if you haven't already done so, I would use a multimeter to check for continuity between the two connectors, for each of the three pins.

If you have a multimeter and do that, if possible also check that there is no continuity between pin 1 and an exposed metal point on the shell of each of the connectors. IME XLR cables generally have no connection between pin 1 and the connector shell; if there is such a connection in your particular cable (either by design or by defect) it's conceivable that it could create the incompatibility you described, depending on the internal grounding configuration of the components.

Best regards,
-- Al