Which xlr cables to buy?

[LCSeminole]

Apr 10, 2016 10:41:12 GMT -5 tchaik said:

Apr 10, 2016 10:05:42 GMT -5 eclypse said:

Yeah those monoprice cables do look and feel fine to me so far. Actually surprise me everytime I pick them up as I still setting up my new stands.

Yeah if I could afford the extra coin I too would of grabbed the sexier emotiva cables we well.

only us audio nuts would refer to cables/equipment as 'sexy'. what a sorry lot we are……..

i remember an audio dealer way back in the day referring to the insides of a krell amp as doing something beneficial for the more private areas of the male anatomy. our wives/mates just wouldn't understand.


tchaik………….

Actually I think that audio dealer must have been referring to how hot Krell amplifiers(Class A if I remember correctly) would get, thus the wives lighting a fire under our ass.

[DavidR]

Apr 1, 2016 9:12:54 GMT -5 monkumonku said:

I've used Monoprice XLR and for the most part they have been fine although I found two of them that were defective because they were wired incorrectly. Now I am using cables from Blue Jeans Cable and also some Canare L4E6S Star Quad XLR cables purchased from Amazon. They cost a little bit more but after finding those two miswired Monoprice cables I stopped using Monoprice. Sound-wise I don't detect any differences, though. You'd probably do just fine with Monoprice but I decided to spend a little more to get cables I had more confidence in.

Note: if you are going to buy several Monoprice cables it is cheaper to get them directly from Monoprice rather than Amazon because even if you have Prime shipping, the Amazon price has the shipping built into it and it's more than what Monoprice charges for multiple items.

I always check my interconnects with my Fluke DMM be they RCA or XLR - BEFORE using them. I had one bad RCA and it wasn't a cheapie nor was it uber expensive.