It won't hurt you to try them - It would be interesting if what you hear doesn't match up with your theory based on your technical knowledge, or if you feel it does.

I think they could ship you an analogue pair as they are the same as the digital leads that way you have 2, one for each speaker. Ideally you would have 3 to try 1 from the MC200 to 818 or is that done via SpeakerLink?

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