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[David Allred]

Just by chance, I used a cable I normally don't to connect a powered speaker.  It popped when the female end first started to mate.  It popped on every output on the patch bay I tried.  It otherwise worked normally once connectec. The ground socket was closer to the face for first contact, as expected.  I opened the shell and found a few ground wire strays.  I snipped them.
No more pops. 
What exactly (probably) were the strays doing to cause the pop?

[Don T. Williams]

A quick guess was the were touching and thus grounding the connector shell.  Maybe?

[Wes Garland]

Probably pin 1 was shorted to one of the other  two pins.  The cable will still work like this, but you'll be down 6dB and lose CMNR.

[David Allred]

Probably pin 1 was shorted to one of the other  two pins.  The cable will still work like this, but you'll be down 6dB and lose CMNR.

Thanks.  Makes sense.

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