Millenium MCT-10

I think MCT-10 is an excellent cable tester for this price. Actually, for this price it's a must-have product. It will save you time, money and guess-work with those dreaded cables. If you're playing guitar and sing, cables of all sorts seem to be around you. And eventually they start to break up. Or down.

I bought it to take care of a box full of old bad cables I somehow collected in 20 years of playing in bands. I bought MCT-10, multimeter and a soldering kit to stop them the scrap cables from piling up any further.

I didn't experience and problems w/ battery compartment, seems to have "clicked" in firmly. Even tried to wiggle it about, after reading some reviews regarding it loosing contact. Didn't move a bit.

The only semi-issue for me is the position of the knob. If you look at the LEDs from the angle, while MCT-10 is placed on the working desk, the selector knob will obstruct your view of the lower middle LED. If you look at the LEDs from straight above, they're really bright! Nothing a normal functioning homo sapiens couldn't work around. Some moving of the head might help.

I'm glad Thomann/Millenium offers such products for a very affordable price. As I said: for this price MCT-10 is a must-have!

Very heavy, looks and feels like "army gear". If the insides were done properly (in China of course), it should last a long time.

This makes testing cables much much faster. Previously I would have to use a Active DI box and my mini mixer to test all my XLR cables. Then again use other methods to test the other cables such as Jack cables, Speakon NL4/NL2 etc.

Why did I have to use an Active DI box? Well because to test all three connections on an XLR cable you need to use phantom power. If I tested with a passive DI or dynamic microphone then it may still pass audio but would be annoying to find that I can't use phantom power or that the signal isn't balanced anymore and thus allows noise to come down the cable.

Testing cables this way starting to wear the connectors on them too. They are a lot more expensive to replace than this mini tester! I also love the fact that if you use any cables that do not match the connectors on the unit you can use the test leads. They simply bleep when there is connection between both ends. It also includes a battery test to make sure it isn't dead before you go to use it and it doesn't use any power until a connection is made.

I can say "this little one knows everything" and I'm not too far away from the truth.
It's an accurate, reliable measuring instrument to check and find broken cables. It can handle all the standard audio cables with general plugs from the XLR to RCA and you don't have to be a brain surgeon to use it. Well thought out and designed product with clearly understandable surface.....and I'm using it three years ago with the same 9V battery.
Very handy small helper if you're in the middle of insanity,and something's wrong and the mic. doesn't give a sound and you don't have time to check all the cables one by one "where is the guilty?".