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

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

I started up the road with Cardas Golden Crosses and Kimber Hero's. And, while I haven't been back there for a while, I jsut sold my last pair of Hero's off. They stayed in place for an old cd recorder/cassette player I had for a long time. Yeoman's work!

@ Jmcgrogan2, Hi, The Full loom comment was for Schubert, I have been poping pop corn and eating it and laughing my ass off reading this thread! I see a few of our friends run off from the thread when the flame wars started, I have No comment, LOL!, yep, you can teach an ole dog like me to say nothing, sometimes, Its best not too!

Elizabeth, see my thread asking about plugging high end PCs into a wall socket or a power line conditioner, and the last response

To NoNoise: I am about to venture on a voyage of discovery with Darwin, not Charles, BUT a Darwin IC: the Darwin Silver Plus( the next in line after the original) Tony Bender PROMISED A "PEACE OF Mind" return policy should the voyage of discovery turn into a Carnival Cruise

I believe you mentioned the Darwin IC product on this thread, or my PC thread. Nevertheless, if you own one let us know your impressions of it.

I happened to take stock of my IC's, including the newest which was a Red Dawn Flatwire. It sounded OK with the Rega Apollo. The other( past) stars, Audio Magic Spellcaster II, and Synergistic Research Alpha Sterling have lost their mesmerizing power, and luster, and will be sent to the IC boneyard at the back of the closet, or Used Cable.com

Unless there was a barometric anomaly yesterday causing my eardrums to collapse, these older IC's sounded nasty. The Red Dawn held its own, but was generally unremarkable.