Hello everyone, I have met up with a seller of a pair of Sony XBA-A3's and both his cables we're about 80% "scratched" into a silver looking color, they we're also faulty, had to hold them in a special way for them to work (when rotating the 3.5 jack, it was distorting, when twisting the cable the sound was disappearing / losing audio), and it was a lot worse when inserting into my portable dac (it's a cheap chi-fi dac but it works flawlessly with my hd560s and ie 200, also pretty good sound and amp 
) The seller said he never used the cables, which is of course a damn lie 
But when inserting the jack into my friends phone or the sellers phone (mine doesn't have one) it was somewhat better, not that much distortion and less of that "having to hold it a special way" stuff, still though, it was definitely not fully working. The seller wasn't trying to really sell it to me aggresively but he wanted to take advantage of my youth and started saying it's actually not a problem or anything serious, but I ended up not buying them because of it, I liked the IEM's themselves though 
he was also a huge snake oil fan saying I'm lucky getting them second hand because apparently they require "burn-in" and he had them for some good time so they perform "the best", also telling me about custom very overpriced cables and how they affect the sound... Smh! He seemed like a good guy though, pretty calm and understanding.
But now he's saying he can give me his other XBA-Z5 cable (same lineup, compatible) that apparently works well and is new, which it looks like it really is (for free).
So, my question is: Should I go for that offer or just give up on this seller? No other listing of A3's here though
And can cables not work properly because of that gold plate being scratched? Thanks!
*Pictures of the Z5's "working" cable*
) The seller said he never used the cables, which is of course a damn lie But when inserting the jack into my friends phone or the sellers phone (mine doesn't have one) it was somewhat better, not that much distortion and less of that "having to hold it a special way" stuff, still though, it was definitely not fully working. The seller wasn't trying to really sell it to me aggresively but he wanted to take advantage of my youth and started saying it's actually not a problem or anything serious, but I ended up not buying them because of it, I liked the IEM's themselves though he was also a huge snake oil fan saying I'm lucky getting them second hand because apparently they require "burn-in" and he had them for some good time so they perform "the best", also telling me about custom very overpriced cables and how they affect the sound... Smh! He seemed like a good guy though, pretty calm and understanding.But now he's saying he can give me his other XBA-Z5 cable (same lineup, compatible) that apparently works well and is new, which it looks like it really is (for free).
So, my question is: Should I go for that offer or just give up on this seller? No other listing of A3's here though
And can cables not work properly because of that gold plate being scratched? Thanks!
*Pictures of the Z5's "working" cable*
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