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(More customer reviews)Why buy 3 pairs of 2 ea 3' male to female XLR patch cables? In this case, its the value.
First take a good look at the cable zoom in pic - top shelf stuff and none of this quickie engineering "dozzzzzz it work at all" stuff that is the thickness of a pencil lead. This leads to fantastic audio reproduction.
Second, how many times have you ended up using a 50' XLR cable meant for FOH snakes when all you needed was to interconnect 2 items in a rack? Sure it's temporary, but for under $5 you can get your temporary cables back where they belong and use 3' cables in the rack to interlink EQs, wireless mics, and all those discounted things that omitted the cable.
Finally, I often build custom cables, like an XLR to a 2.5 mm TS male (try finding that one anywhere - I had to machine the 2.5 mm metal connector to accept the cable from the xlr end). What I like about these connectors is they hold on tight to the smallest cable, yet come apart in seconds with just an unscrewing of the outermost cap (make sure it goes on your new cable in the reverse order of course to save fustration). This design lets me unsolder an XLR end - either one - and replace it with something more useful for the job like a 1/4 TRS or my oddball 2.5mm TS end that I needed one day. As a starting place, these cables save time because 75% of what you are building is finished - you just add the final connector for a custom job even if its way out there. (the 2.5 mm was a LINE level output from a radio receiver used to record undercover police activity)
Get the price down to 4.77 a piece for the cables and it's a no brainer because I pay $2.50 each for the XLR connectors alone at the discount audio store.
Put all this together and it's a value proposition - a useful quantity of 3' high quality interconnects (and not those blasted long xlr plugs that don't come apart until you first poke a screwdriver through your hand) - a good price - a good quantity - free 2 day shipping - and my rack will look much nicer when the temporary cables are yanked and replaced with these. I might even consider one of these cables for my "reporter's briefcase" - a hard plastic case for my pmd-661 recorder Marantz PMD661 Portable SD Recorder with just a small mouse hole I milled out for the xlr and remote cables to exit Marantz RC600 Microphone Remote for PMD660 and PMD671, PMD570. At 3' it's just the right length for a small microphone to come out of the case and into the hand with the remote control wrapped around the mic.
My guess is once I use all these up, I'll be back for a second set of cables
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