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studer58
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It can also depend on whether pin 1 inside the xlr connector is attached to the outer shell or not. If it’s not it can be worth soldering a small bridging wire and see if this improves or makes it worse. Also try disconnecting the shield at one end of the xlr cable
I've checked them out and they're fine, good continuity between pin 1 and chassis. I have lots of OM1s and CM4s and they all exhibit this behavior, so I doubt it's a defect. The above example is a particularly bad EMI/RFI environment.