Monoprice 104765 35-Feet Premier Series XLR Male to 1/4-Inch TRS Male 16AWG Cable gold

Holy crap the clarity!! And sleek and sexyyyy looking too, 5 stars!

extremely good quality

TLDR: This is a reasonable cable except that the metal shell of XLR plug is attached to pin 1. This can be fixed by cutting the connection between pin 1 and the shell. It is a bit tedious to do so since this cable uses the old school XLR connector held together by screws :( Note that the sleeve of a phone jack is very often connected to chassis ground. In this cable the sleeve is connected to the XLR shell so it is very likely that there will be a direct connection between the two chassis of concern. If the XLR equipment used with this cable has pin 1 connected to chassis ground then any noise that is picked up on the cable shield will be injected directly into the audio stream. Worse, any differences in the chassis ground potential between the driven end and the receiving end will cause a ground current to flow through the shield (i.e. ground loop) which can cause very severe noise problems. Mogami and other quality cable builders do not make any connection to the XLR shells at all to avoid ground loops. In practice only pin 2 and pin 3 are really needed because well designed equipment only uses the voltage difference between pin 2 and pin 3 to transmit/receive signals. Hence any noise common to the conductors on pin 2 and pin 3 will cancel. The ability to cancel such common mode noise is a main reason that XLR is the best analog interface.

High quality, I am very happy with them.

Good quality at a fair price.

Its a fair product for the price

High quality heavy duty gold plated cables perfect for using from mixer to mains or monitor .

Rivals more expensive name brand cables!

It came with so many scratches on it, but no return’s allowed!

Sound quality processed through this cable was unbelievably poor. Some frequencies came through at high volume while those in the vocal range sounded distant and muffled.