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we're gonna do a can it tow oh god good

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luck everybody normally reviewing a cable

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is a hard pass for me but when i get an email that says hey you want to check

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out an indestructible tactical cable well now you got my attention don't you

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i didn't think today was going to include any of this stuff and yet

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it did meet the elite core athena Ethernet cable a

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truly fascinating product there's one thing i did know today though that i

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this is your run-of-the-mill cat5 or cat6 network cable

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and this is elitecore's super cat

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tactical cable what in the world makes a cable tactical

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is it for jacking into the mainframe during your

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covert ops or using it while taking enemy fire i mean

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is it even better than this there's only one way for us to find out my script

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just says vamp as you unbox so let's go ahead and

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do this thing shall we wow the quality of this printing is terrible lifetime

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guarantee though unconditional you take great pride in your computer and for

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good reason this is some a plus marketing wank right here every single

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inch of it oozes powerful perfection yet we're willing to bet that if you

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peeked around the back it's still connected with a flimsy Ethernet cable

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oh for crying out loud essentially a string and tin cans that's what they

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they said this is essentially a string and tin can enter the athena elite

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dripping with excellence they say built to not only handle modern signal needs

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but to last an eternity and look good along the way look at this locking

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connector like one of the first things to fail on any Ethernet cable is

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obviously that little clip that keeps it into the socket one wrong look at this

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thing and paying off it pops you'll never see it again don't bother trying

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to super glue it back on by the way that doesn't work so elite core

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this is an interesting strat so first they've got this like cover around it so

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it can't accidentally pop off and then they've got a built-in button so you can

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press it then they've got like a strain relief here and

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the sleeving on this thing is freaking ridiculous oh wow look at that

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it's like got memory like sleeving oh well that's pretty cool

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when you're doing like uh like an Ethernet wall or like a kind of

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trickier run how's your kinkage resistance though

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okay not bad and it gets even more

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interesting this is called the converted

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shell connector and it accepts this kind of

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like baton looking thing so you can see the whole Ethernet connector is now like

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recessed in this thing so in order to use this you're actually going to have

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to have special wall plates that elite core makes

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that it plugs into just like an xlr connector like on a on like professional

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audio there you go you have to push this thing to release it

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so like theoretically that's real hard to get

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out by accident of course so far we're just taking elite core's word for it

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that these things are tough you know you can run over it you can hang weights

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from it blah blah blah i want to see for myself so

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for the next few minutes we are going to be beating the absolute

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crap out of this cable and seeing if it still works

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and we get to look good doing it lttstore.com oh i mean we could do a

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quick does it come out on its own by accident test

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okay well that didn't come out on its own we're transferring ladies and

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gentlemen you know what i'm going to start with something a little less heavy

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how about just like this

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is ill doors bane sorry i just watched the lord of the

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rings 4k we actually flattened it a little bit

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of course what we don't know is if that would actually break a regular cable

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still transferring somehow i wouldn't really trust it though eleven twelve

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oh it's dead that's what a dead Ethernet cable looks like so let's give it

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another 20.

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okay elite core okay

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can you tell how much bladder is on camera next test

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regular Ethernet cable versus accidental scissors

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see you later oh it's dead now i i'm

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hoping to actually be able to break it here

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i gotta choke up make sure you get that full snipping power

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oh did i get it i did get it i guess now we can find out

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what it's made of first thing we've got is this is 23 awg

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cat6 so yes rated for 10 gig but not over full

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distance you need cat six a for that each of the individual twisted pairs is

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shielded well that explains the kind of like the memory

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do you think it's just a shield yeah it has to be because there's nothing else

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in here uh colin and i were discussing whether we thought it was going to be

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stranded or solid core i can't tell yet

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what's your final bet now i'm gonna i'm gonna strip it back

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well it's gotta be stranded for a patch cable take industrial

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use i mean it's going to be dragging tanks in and out of the truck 100 times

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i'm going to say solid just to be contrary

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i win it's solid core no way it's solid core okay well that would explain some

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of the memory as well then and probably what makes it so that it doesn't break

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is like i said the fact that it has such thick shielding and then sheathing on it

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just because one of our cables is dead doesn't mean our test is over we

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pre-tested this blue cable and we've devised a series of torture tests we're

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gonna put it through before going back in and testing it again starting with

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the classic can you run over it with a pickup truck

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my lovely assistant colin will well he'll assist

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okay you know what that's probably enough of that as expected that did

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nothing at all another classic we're gonna do a can it toe oh god oh god oh

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god i mean it's doing it

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i don't know how high my confidence level is right now okay colin break

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matthias break oh god

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colin waited a second there oh i gotta i gotta play my

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favorite song

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oh this poor thing i don't think it lived the sleeving has suffered a little

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bit let's go test it now wait

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no it still works you gotta be kidding me

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all right let's go back and kill it for real this time

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soft wheels that's easy but these are hard wheels this forklift

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weighs about three thousand pounds good luck everybody

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all right thanks matthias oh man that didn't even do anything flattened it a

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little die

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test time you ready try again try again did we kill it oh my god we

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didn't we didn't it's it works

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thought we got it that time okay then marketing about the shame of connecting

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your gaming rig with a flimsy cable you found in a drawer somewhere

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clearly these are made for a different purpose than your run-of-the-mill router

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to pc connection where the result is like mission critical like if you're

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setting up an audio system for a touring musician or rapidly deploying emergency

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infrastructure this is the kind of cable that you spend the extra on when you

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need to be able to trust that it will work even when it's abused and that

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is what tactical means according to what we've seen in

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the real world this will stand the test of time whether you're a traveling show

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that moves production to production or whether you just you know

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run over your cables with your chair all the time or something like that but what

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is the cost i actually don't know so this is the

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reveal oh really

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42 us dollars per cable you know what

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that's bad but it's not

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that bad like after working with pro-grade cameras and filming equipment

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and that kind of stuff for so long it doesn't surprise me i mean whether

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it's an xlr cable or like a weird proprietary usb adapter for the a7 or

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this is a classic this is the cable that goes between a red camera and the

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monitor that is proprietary to red excuse me we break a lot of those

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because um the screen really is not great these are 150 a pop i know which

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is a lot of money huh actually i'm kind of still

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processing that one but it's

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it's kind of the cost of doing business at a certain point and it will pay for

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itself every time you have a completed production that doesn't require a

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reshoot or where the editor doesn't find a proper hiss in the audio uh these

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wireless microphone packs for example are four thousand dollars a pair i mean

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you can get a wireless lav kit for a tenth of that but it's not mission

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critical grade so that's why there's this whole world out there of connectors

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and industrial cables that are designed to far outperform what you would find

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kicking around your house one of the big manufacturers in the connector space is

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neutrik and they actually make many of the connectors that elite core uses in

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their products they're kind of the de facto standard when it comes to rigging

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gear like this this is actually a power bar that elite core makes that is a

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hundred and sixty seven dollars for just four outlets but it's got this locking

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connector and if you open it up i mean the cable management man it's like you

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could throw this thing around the back of a truck drive it across country and

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you would still expect it to freaking work now that's not to say that the

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performance of these cables is any better whether it's the Ethernet or

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power or whatever else it's just it's just basically

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tin cans and string at the end of the day but when it comes to locking retention

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mechanisms water tightness and durability well

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