john r, i took your pic advise and redid mine that-a-way!!!
give those cables a rough shakin, i bet ya get audible dropouts, thats why i electrical taped mine finallly
we need to get some xlr's going on or something, unless i got the ONE set of bad extra leads, but its their whole cable play, im tellin ya'll!!!
mine dont dropout now unless i pick up the cable while its plugged into the hosa, turn it upside down while holding the hosa cable up in the air, and also pulling the cable EVERY which way, and still it only cuts out very rarely, but its not the hosa's input dc plug, cause ive tried to stress/rattle that and to no avail, so its all in their crap ass plastic connectors, or the cables coming directly outta the batt!!!