Monoprice XLR Male to XLR Female Cable - 50 Feet - Black, 16AWG, Gold Plated Copper Wire Conductors - Premier Series

I'm very impressed by these cables. I moved to a new place and began having strange noises / hisses / hums / continues beeps in my professional audio interface inputs, which after investigating this issue online made me came to the conclusion that it's actually called "ground-loop" noise coming out from the home AC outlet and into my audio gear that is connected to it.At the beginning and before knowing that it's a ground-loop problem, I tried replacing the cables, but I naively used standard cheap ones from the local store and kept having these noises. Then I thought that it's my professional yet old 32-bit PCI audio interface card that might just signals me of its age, or that it's perhaps noise coming out from my PC motherboard to the PCI card.At this point I decided to upgrade to an external USB-C audio interface that would just sit externally from my PC and transfer audio from it via a USB-C cable, instead of analog ones (although the external audio interface still requires analog cables to connect to the speakers). I was hoping that the issue will go away and went buying one of the famous professional USB-C audio interfaces out there, which costed me about $1,300 USD including taxes and local profit of the local store in my country. However, I hooked up everything together (with the same and different cheap cables) and still had noise issues - different and less noticeable noise, as todays audio gear are perhaps more aware of such issues and have internal components that reduce varies noise problems. While the previous hisses / hum noise had gone, I was still having a continues beeping noise that was still there all along and more noticeable when I increased my speakers volume or used headphones. I almost went and ordered a power conditioner unit, but before that I convinced myself to order some high quality cables off Amazon and hoped for the best. I ordered the shortest 1.5ft ones as my audio gear are stacked and very close to each other. These cables are not cheap (I'd give you that) but thankfully, they actually SOLVED ALL OF THE NOISE PROBLEMS I WAS HAVING! I connected them between my audio synth stereo-mix output to the audio interface inputs and increased my speakers all the way to the maximum - at first I thought that no signal is coming out since it was 100% quiet(!), and then I played something on my synth and BAM! The high volume hit me. I was so amazed of the quiet signal and just couldn't believe that all I had to do is to replace the cables with high quality ones.These are truly a game changer and I'm so glad that I went in that route and bought them. After that experience I went and ordered 8 pieces of the 1/4 inch ones (same brand of course) to connect all of the 5.1 channels from my audio synth to the 8 individual inputs of my audio interface for recording the individual 5.1 channels arrangement at the same time. This is where I also learned about what "balanced" cables are, and that 1/4 inch TS cables (which are usually used for guitars) and 1/4 inch TRS cables are very different, not only because TS is mono and TRS is stereo, but TRS are also called "balanced cables" which can separate the ground noise from your audio as its has a dedicated ground pin from the signal, which is the sleeve; TS stands for "Tip-Sleeve" where the Tip is the L (left) channel and the Sleeve is the ground, and TRS means "Tip-Ring-Sleeve" where the Tip is the L (left) channel, the Ring is the R (right) channel, and the Sleeve is the ground. The XLR cables are working the same way as TRS cables, as they also have 3 pins in the connector. That said, cheap XLR/TRS cables would probably give you noise, so make sure that you use high quality cables if a clean input is what you're looking for.I'm not regretting for getting a new audio interface as I would eventually had to upgrade anyway, but at least now I'm more experienced and more aware that ground loop problems could be solved with high quality cables.

Exactly what I needed. Works.

Nothing on this cable feels cheap or flimsy. This is priced well compared to competitor's.

Excellent nose floor low with these cables great value and product.

I have typically use GLS XLR cables in the past but I just added an SVS PB4000 subwoofer to my system and thought I'd try these from Monoprice since their amps are an outstanding value for the money and I wanted to make sure really get my money's worth from the PB4000. When I took the cables out of the package my initial reaction was great. They appeared to be very well made and the quality of the materials appeared superior to the GLS cables I've been using. However, when I went to plug in the male pin end, it wouldn't fit, which seemed very usual, as they usually slide in with minimal resistance. I thought maybe I just needed to take a closer look, that my visual alignment was off. It wasn't. When I looked into the end of the cable the pins were obviously misaligned with the outer ring. I was able to bend them into position when the cable seems to work fine, but I'd have to say that was disappointing to see and not what I expected at all from a brand with great reputation that I've had great experience with the past. The other cable was fine. I may have just received a one in a million quality control miss, but none the less, it happened. Again, the cable ended performing well after I bent the pins back into alignment and I'd still rate them a great value and they are built of good quality materials. The lack of quality control just threw me a bit.

Nice thick cable and works perfect.The connection is very strong and snaps in perfectly.The price was very reasonable as well. I have some other Fender cables that are similar in quality but much more expensive. Great buy.

Good product.

I purchased a ton of monoprice cables over the last 20 years, and I can easily say they are the BEST value in the business. I’ve had to repair a few out of the bag, but they’re not molded and easy to disassemble. Considering the cost difference between these and other higher end cables, I’ll stick with Monoprice forever and just keep my soldering iron handy.