15 ft XLR thoughts (BJC/Mogami etc)

Brad, don’t let Mike’s OPINION sway you. Clearly, it is NOT based on experience
However, a quality 15ft pair of XLRs can easily top $1000, and likely $2000. Best move is to bring them within 1 meter of each other

You state you own very high quality (and expensive) amp and pre and somehow expect that a cheap ass XLR cable will allow you to hear what they are musically capable of?


Mind Blown

Using your example: " many in the recording industry use Mogami cable extensively" is laughable for so many reasons


The fact that millions of people eat McDonalds every day, does that mean I should too?

AND, when you tried the $2200 pair (price isn’t necessarily an indication of high sound quality) were the 2 components BOTH Differentially Balanced? And was the rest of the system capable of revealing the differences?


From personal experience over decades of reading various hi-end magazine reviews of Dif Balanced (DB) components, all too often the Editor sends a DB component to be reviewed by one of their writers whose system is NOT DB! They had to use XLR/RCA jumpers. And to a fault the typical report included I really couldn’t hear a difference. Well DUH!

I would write or email the Editors, but it fell on their deaf ears

hth

jetter,

you know what happens when you ASSume?

How many recordings flat out suck?

djones, not all $2200 XLRs sound good, and cheap ones are for those who cannot hear any difference, or who are just cheap by nature. Unfortunately, many recording engineers.