Hi Ian, I have two signex patchbays that I use daily. I also purchased some Hosa patch cables. I noticed I was getting poor connections when lining up my interfaces they were intermittently dropping a little of signal and audible bad connection noise when moving cables. I made up some Neutrik patch cables and these have no issues. Not sure if the Hosa cables are complete junk, or the signex and Hosa sit at opposite ends of tolerance. I thinks more likely a Hosa issue.
It would be nice if signex had used jumpers for the normaling as soldering is a pain to reconfigure.
All in all for the price and ease of DSUB connections I would definitely recommend.
Patcad is a good little app for labelling the patchbays.