DDW
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Well... I in spite of seeing what "appears" to be a nice bright light, I guess I have to assume it "could" be damaged and I suppose it could have been damaged in shipping.
Personally, I am NOT going to take blame for any damage to the connecter as I have gone WAY out of my way to baby it. It seems fragile to me.
I never insert or remove by putting any pressure or pulling on the cable. I always push and pull on the round connector housing.
If it were damaged by me - just from inserting and removing so VERY carefully, it is WAY to fragile. I have NOT even carried the combo around yet with the connector attached since it doesn't work. I have made sure to use pretty good velcro that doesn't allow hardly any movement between the two units. I don't know how I could have damaged the connector.
I have actually "started" constructing a foam cut-out protector to put over the bottom of my combo to specifically protect that connector.
I asked Joseph about recommendations for protecting the cable. Because of the way the H140 lines up with the D10 when connected and ideally having both the D10's volume and headphone out jack at the top (carried vertically in a Case Logic Case that I found to fit the combo), the unit "sits" on the optical connector inside the bag which has been a concern for me. However, as mentioned above, I have yet to actually carry the H140 connected with the D10 since it doesn't work yet. For now, I have been carrying the D10 with iPod connected at top with mini jack in the case.
Further, I try to avoid stressing the connector and it's 90 degree bends by inserting slowly and alternating sides of insertion and only inserting each side about 1/3 at a time.
The connector came to me in Paper/bubble bag - which may not have been sufficient (????).
Unfortunately, I already trashed the paper/bubble bag, but I don't remember it looking in bad condition at all. I purchase a fair amount of stuff online, so by nature if the packaging had looked rough, I would have probably held on to it to make sure everything was O.K.
But, the connector looked very fine as best I could tell - although I suppose I might not be able to tell for sure - So, I guess don't really know.
I suppose ideally, the connector maybe should have been in a "Rigid" box like container - maybe hard plastic, tin or a good heavy duty (even if small) sized cardboard box - prior to the paper/bubble bag.
I actually received the connector on Tuesday, but I didn't have any songs loaded into my H140 until Wednesday night. - Been working through my problems with the system via this thread since Wednesday night.
I haven't called Joseph yet, because up until last night, I didn't think the conector could possibly be at fault.
At this point, I am about 90% leaning towards the connector being the issue, but it will take a good bit of time and effort for me to realistically eliminate the small chance that the:
H140 signal strength is too weak (works with VERY loose "Hand-Held" Toslink cable to Pioneer Receiver) - Seems unlikely to be the H140.
OR
D10 receiver sensitivity being too weak - But, it works fine with A/C CD player and apparently worked VERY fine with a MacBook Pro.
This custom cable just seems the most likely issue.
Should I really spend the time and effort to try to hunt down an adaptor and other Optical sources and receivers to keep testing the H140's signal strength and D10's reception sensitivity? Or should I just contact Joseph and work out a replacement and hope that fixes it?
If I am looking at ordering an adapter for my Toslink to Toslink cable, I could just order it from him.... and wait out the two weeks.
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Personally, I am NOT going to take blame for any damage to the connecter as I have gone WAY out of my way to baby it. It seems fragile to me.
I never insert or remove by putting any pressure or pulling on the cable. I always push and pull on the round connector housing.
If it were damaged by me - just from inserting and removing so VERY carefully, it is WAY to fragile. I have NOT even carried the combo around yet with the connector attached since it doesn't work. I have made sure to use pretty good velcro that doesn't allow hardly any movement between the two units. I don't know how I could have damaged the connector.
I have actually "started" constructing a foam cut-out protector to put over the bottom of my combo to specifically protect that connector.
I asked Joseph about recommendations for protecting the cable. Because of the way the H140 lines up with the D10 when connected and ideally having both the D10's volume and headphone out jack at the top (carried vertically in a Case Logic Case that I found to fit the combo), the unit "sits" on the optical connector inside the bag which has been a concern for me. However, as mentioned above, I have yet to actually carry the H140 connected with the D10 since it doesn't work yet. For now, I have been carrying the D10 with iPod connected at top with mini jack in the case.
Further, I try to avoid stressing the connector and it's 90 degree bends by inserting slowly and alternating sides of insertion and only inserting each side about 1/3 at a time.
The connector came to me in Paper/bubble bag - which may not have been sufficient (????).
Unfortunately, I already trashed the paper/bubble bag, but I don't remember it looking in bad condition at all. I purchase a fair amount of stuff online, so by nature if the packaging had looked rough, I would have probably held on to it to make sure everything was O.K.
But, the connector looked very fine as best I could tell - although I suppose I might not be able to tell for sure - So, I guess don't really know.
I suppose ideally, the connector maybe should have been in a "Rigid" box like container - maybe hard plastic, tin or a good heavy duty (even if small) sized cardboard box - prior to the paper/bubble bag.
I actually received the connector on Tuesday, but I didn't have any songs loaded into my H140 until Wednesday night. - Been working through my problems with the system via this thread since Wednesday night.
I haven't called Joseph yet, because up until last night, I didn't think the conector could possibly be at fault.
At this point, I am about 90% leaning towards the connector being the issue, but it will take a good bit of time and effort for me to realistically eliminate the small chance that the:
H140 signal strength is too weak (works with VERY loose "Hand-Held" Toslink cable to Pioneer Receiver) - Seems unlikely to be the H140.
OR
D10 receiver sensitivity being too weak - But, it works fine with A/C CD player and apparently worked VERY fine with a MacBook Pro.
This custom cable just seems the most likely issue.
Should I really spend the time and effort to try to hunt down an adaptor and other Optical sources and receivers to keep testing the H140's signal strength and D10's reception sensitivity? Or should I just contact Joseph and work out a replacement and hope that fixes it?
If I am looking at ordering an adapter for my Toslink to Toslink cable, I could just order it from him.... and wait out the two weeks.
.
