Features:

  • Pro-grade XLR to XLR cabls is designed for microphones or other professional recording, mixing, and lighting equipments with the 3 pin XLR connectors
  • Convenient and cost-effective 2-pack microphone cable provide spare or replacement XLR cables (male to female) to use on a set of microphones or on different systems
  • Balanced Mic cable with soft PVC jacket is constructed with oxygen-free copper (OFC) conductors for delivering pristine sound
  • Copper braided shielding provides maximum cancellation of hum and noise; Polyethylene insulation improves high frequency response. Heavy duty metal connectors with molded strain relief and grip treads increase durability and help easy plugging and unplugging
  • Compatible with equipments with 3-pin XLR connectors such as shotgun microphones, studio harmonizers, mixing boards, patch bays, preamps, speaker systems, and stage lighting
I love the Cable Matters brand

I have so many different products from Cable Matters now. I just purchased a ton of different sizes of XLR from them and am so happy with the quality of their products. They come coiled up in a pretty small box, but over/under pretty well once you untwist them since the cable quality is good. The ends all appear to be a great quality. Overall, I am very pleased with the company and the products!

Awesome value and sound quality

We use these at my church to send audio from a laptop, to the snake, back to the board. Overall, great value! The sound quality is awesome, so I would not hesitate for a second to use these in studio—16AWG oxygen-free wire and gold-plated connectors make a difference. The cable jackets and strain reliefs are well built, but I do feel that the jacks will loosen over time and are not of the best quality construction. If you need something more rugged (for a vocalists microphone), look for Neutrik connectors. For patching equipment, save the money and grab these!

and the cheap cables actually sound worse. I never would have believed I would hear ...

I've purchase a LOT of this brand of cables! These really are heavy duty cables, and still relatively inexpensive. HEAVY conductors inside, not 24 gauge or 22 gauge wire, this is quality. We have 50' versions of these we use to power our PA system, and the cheap cables actually sound worse. I never would have believed I would hear a difference, but even me, a drummer, can hear it. I've been buying and using these for two years, not a single failure. Not one. I recommend these to everyone.

High Quality Cables for a Good Price

These are high quality cables for an excellent price. Each pair comes packed in a nice box, a pleasant surprise. The cables are thick and sturdy, yet supple and easy to work with. They have black metal housings and gold-plated connectors. I haven't had them long enough to know how they'll hold up in the long run, but I get the impression they'll stand the test of time. Only time will tell, but for now, I have no reason not to give them a solid five stars. Great product. UPDATE: Since my initial review, I've added many more Cable Matters XLR cables of lengths from 3' to 25'. They have held up great and never let me down. The quality of these cables is a cut above and they're a dream to work with. Highly recommended.

Heavy Duty yet Flexible-Pro all the way!

Best heavy duty cable on Amazon! Great heavy duty connectors that are removed easily with a quality clasp. Also the cable is thick, but still flexible. I use this on a professional basis in pretty extreme conditions and have had no problems. The price is excellent as well-in fact the best price I could find on the web.

Excellent Quality XLR Patch Cables

If I recall correctly these are high quality braided shield cables making them a good choice when used with audio equipment in a radio station environment where spiral wound shielding is just not good enough. I use these in my high-end AV sound system and I've got no complaints from "BRUNO" the 155Lb McIntosh MC602 stereo power amplifier that is "fed" by these cables...they're good enough for me.

Fantastic, fat cables with braided shielding, 2 conductors, and gold plated connectors

TL;DR: These cables are extremely nice quality and are free of interference and defects for a fairly low price. I ordered these because the last few cables I bought from CableMatters were pretty good quality and arrived very quickly. These were also the right length and price for what I was looking for, except I was going to end up with *2* cables for the price I was expecting to pay for a single cable. They came in a padded Amazon envelope and inside a single plastic bag within this envelope; the bag also had a large label on it saying it should contain 2 cables and warning the distributor that they are to stay packaged together in a pair. I guess they've had issues with separation, kind of made me laugh a tiny bit because this warning label is so prominent. I disassembled the connector on the female end just enough to check the assembly and material quality, since I just assembled one of these recently and I knew it would be easy to take apart and put back together. I wanted to make sure I got what CableMatters claims to sell, and I'm happy to say it looks like it's all exactly what they said it is on their site. WIRE/CABLE: Anyway, these cables are very thickly insulated with copper braid shielding. Supposedly there's foil in their under the copper braiding, but I couldn't see it in there and I don't want to damage anything digging for it. (Braided shielding is more effective, more expensive, and usually provides lower resistance path to ground than foil, but adding a layer of foil provides complete coverage against interference.) Inside of the shielding, there are two conductors (separately insulated wires--hot and ground) that are very thin gauge. I'm not sure what gauge, but I'm guessing it's like 24 or 26 AWG. The jacket of the cable (outermost layer) is soft, thick, and should be made of PVC but I don't know how to tell what the material actually is. Scratching it with my nail doesn't seem to hurt it. Text is printed at regular intervals on it in a very clear font; it contains their logo and reads, "Cable Matters (THEIR WEBSITE URL)HIGH QUALITY MICROPHONE CABLE" and does not otherwise describe the ratings or properties of the cable; I would have liked to know the ratings and maybe who manufactures the cable material (I don't think CM makes the wire in-house, I think they just modify and assemble it), but that's me. CONNECTORS: You can disassemble these connectors by gently unscrewing the black plastic strain relief cones from the metal connector housings. The connectors seem to be some Neutrik XLR gold-plated connectors, which have been repainted in semi-gloss black, do not have the stamped NEUTRIK labels on the strain relief or housing, and have a silkscreened small CableMatters logo opposite of the latching mechanism. I'm not sure which model line (eg XX, EMC) the connectors are, and I can't be completely sure if they are actually NEUTRIK or just look the same. The springy plastic ring around the strain relief can probably be swapped for Neutrik's XXR-n (swap n for numbers 0 through 9) color coding rings. These are currently $0.25 or so each if you order them from electrical supply companies, such as Mouser or Allied, but if you really want them from an Amazon vendor, I saw a listing selling them for $6 *each* with an additional ~$7 in shipping, or another listing that sells them for about $8 shipped. :) The paint looks like the polyester powdercoating that I've seen on Hoffman industrial enclosures at work, except thinner, so I believe it's the same stuff. It's not a very tough paint, in my experience; it will probably scuff somewhat easily if you drag or hit it against metal, but I also think that since it's thin, it probably is at least not going to have poor adhesion or just flake off, and it shouldn't get damaged by fingernails, wood, or plastic. The wires and shielding are soldered to the connector pins and tab; the solder is shiny, I was not able to pry off any connections with my fingernail (I'd rather know if they are cold-soldered sooner rather than in the middle of a gaming session), and the insulation of the wires and connector isolator material are not deformed or melted. These cables are probably assembled by hand and the workmanship is absolutely fantastic. SOUND QUALITY: Using the direct monitor setting, even with my pre-amp's mic gain setting turned all the way to +60 dB, the sound through this cable is crystal-clear and no detectable hiss. I can clearly hear sparrows chirping and wind blowing through my open window with how high I have the gain set; when I swap to my old cobbled-together coax abomination cable, there is a lot of popping, there is a low hum, and everything going through my mic sounds horribly distorted. I wish I had a "real" XLR cable that I could compare it to. NOTE: My pre-amp has noise filtering, so it's possible that some interference may still be getting picked up in this cable and the amp is managing to filter it all out enough that I can't detect it at full gain. The pre-amp definitely doesn't filter much noise from my other cable, though, so I think this cable from CM blocks interference extremely well.

Pro-grade cables! Clean sound!

Fantastic XLR cables at an unbeatable price. Not sure it need much more elaboration other than that! The cable is very thick and sufficiently pliable, which is the mark of a quality cable. Connectors are very solid too. I am using them with Shure SM57 for instrument/amplifier mic'ing. I don't detect any interference noise in the cable. A word of caution with cables: although it's tempting to get long cables to be as flexible as possible, it's my opinion that cables are cheap enough that you can afford to get various sizes and use the shortest length to get the job done. Resistance (degradation of signal) in the cable is a function of cable length. When you can get great cables like this as cheap as being offered, there isn't much excuse to get a bunch! Just my opinion anyway. 5 stars! I will be buying more!

These are excellent cables. I was tired of mic cables wearing ...

I told the rep at Cable Matters that I was a diligent reviewer and this is my review: These are excellent cables. I was tired of mic cables wearing out after a year or 2. How many times do you have to tell your band mates "don't step on the cables damn it!!"? Oh well nothing lasts forever but they become non-recyclable garbage that you hate to throw away but you don't know what to do with...So I decided to buy these Cable Matters products - they are exactly as they appear in the photos; actually they are better. I bought 4 cables (2 boxes). When they arrived, visually they were obviously high quality. They had a heft to them and felt indestructible. Unfortunately one of them stopped working (or never worked, not sure) almost immediately. Complete silence - not crackly or partial sound. I emailed the company and they stated that there is a ONE YEAR FULL WARRANTY on replacement. The problem was I had to mail the bad cable back to Massachusetts to get a replacement and that cost about $10 by USPS which is the cheapest method. The good news is they sent me 2 new cables so I am basically still very happy - I now have 5 top notch mic cables. It turns out using vocal processors I needed at least 5 anyway. I assume that if they function perfectly when you receive them, that they will last a very long time. Hopefully I will not need to update this review anytime soon! Thank you, Mia and Bridget at Cable Matters. - Jeff M.

Great cables and customer service

I needed cables for my karaoke system at home. They've worked great and the connectors click in well and hold the connection secure. I'm not a professional musician that uses these cables every day though so not sure if they would hold up to professional abuse. It's been several years and the cables have held up well. I did have one issue and several years after my purchase Cable Matters help replace a screw that fell out. I've purchased several Cable Matters products and will continue to buy their products in the future because of their great customer service.

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