hakuzen
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Yes, the weakest and cheapest part in cable 065 is the jack. Guess the plain jack is same low quality than criss-cross pattern one. They are same jack than used by TRN in their bad soldered cables.I've just seen in your review of the 65's you say you received a cheap looking plug with criss-cross pattern attached to the blue cable, which had some pretty bad channel imbalance. I suspect this channel imbalance was due to the plug.
Unfortunately it looks like the copper version now only comes with that plug (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32995790233.html). Do you know any other sellers that still have the cable with the good plug attached? The other link in your review (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32954964343.html) says it's no longer available there.
Summary of measured cables using that jack:
1 bad soldered from 3 cables 065 (jcally 4 cores; copper color ones were ok, blue was wrong).
1 bad soldered from 3 cables 066 (jcally 8 cores black).
7 very bad soldered from 7 cables 056 (TRN 8 cores).
I don't know if ISN audio S4 cable (not in my list) uses same wire than 065; it has quite better plug, but costs 4x. Same about cable 128 of my list.
Guess S4 and 128 use better wire, because wire of 065 is much cheaper.