I like the way you think reviewers gear gets tested more than a buying customers... That's is 100% un-true. I have 2 samples, and have tried customer bought ones and they are the same quality wise.
Again a few here have samples and bought units with their own money like
@Wyville and have had no issues.
It could be you have got a lemon, unlikely but possible. Either way Effect Audio will sort it out for you quickly.
In similar vein, I also like how you made a sweeping statement in which you can make an assertion with absolute certainty that mass produced units gets the exact same quality in all aspects as reviewer units
. No one can really say that unless they are working for EA in some form or another, or privy to their inner workings as friends or member of trade, all of which I certainly am not. I for one certainly couldnt make such an assertion, hence all I could do was, as I quote, hazard a guess that "quality control may perhaps have lapsed a little".
In addition, given EA's claims of a special collaboration and improvements, I had expected the ferrite bead to be integrated into the barrel itself as an elegant unit. The last thing I had expected was a ghetto mod involving sticking a choker bead onto the wire itself for a 2k totl cable. Given EA's focus on aesthetics, this seemed contradictory, even shoddy. Imagine if you bought a boutique bike which marketed having improved shock dampening, and you opened it up to find that it was simply foam taped to the inner frame as opposed to it having specific cutouts integrated into the frame molding process itself.
Hence, my surprise upon opening the barrel which lead to my concerns that EA might have slipped up in my purchased unit leading to a rather backyard DIY-er esque implementation of shielding in a plug. Maybe I'm just to boutique products being well designed and built, but if I was expecting too much then maybe I should learn to taper my expectations abit. But it never hurts to clarify first
Surprised to hear a jack didn't fit, I'd assume it would be a well established issue if it was more common? I have personally never experienced a jack that didn't fit (with any cable brand for that matter), only the top-end connectors are sometimes larger or smaller unfortunately.
@Rei87 I think Alex posted a pic of the ferrite choker a while back when he got Horus, you might be thinking of that. Hope you enjoy it.
I can't agree or disagree with the plug issue, as all my EA wires have almost always been reterminated as soon as I receive them to better plugs, be it furutech back then, or bispa/pentaconn OFC and copper 2-pins. The improvements may be arguable, but I do find these changes a discernable improvements , and given that EA themselves would go to such lengths to promote their oyaide rebranded plugs prehaps these plugs do have something going for it after all.
On that note, I've had some fun reterminating ALL the connectors used on the wire and upgraded the solder as well. I must say that the sound has at least, to my ears, changed. I'll post some details on the final look and sound post changes after I've let it run for a while.
