Neutrik is a Swiss company but the name is German so the pronunciation in the video is correct.
willndmb wrote:
> how would the connector make the shield on your cable better? a chain is only as strong as its weakest link
??! The shield isn't what protects you from RFI. A balanced cable in which both signal leads have equal impedance and an even twist will resist RFI even with no shield at all, when feeding a balanced input. The interfering signal reaches the input with equal amplitude in both leads, and being a common-mode signal, it then cancels out. The shield plays no role in that.
The shield is part of the phantom powering circuit and it helps reject hum, buzz and crosstalk from other parallel-running cables as well as from power transformers, etc. that may be nearby. But the cable shield can equally well be a source of interference when it runs between two pieces of AC-powered equipment connected to different branch circuits, or even outlets on the same branch circuit that are some distance apart. Inevitably there will be a potential difference between the chassis of one piece of equipment and the chassis of the other one, and this results in AC current flowing through the shield between them.
The Neutrik EMC connectors are extremely effective at preventing noise due to current induced in the cable shield as well as "pin 1" problems which conduct the 60 Hz shield current into the audio circuitry.
--best regards