Dave Plowman in uk.rec.audio:

In article ,
Jim H wrote:
By my understanding pros use quite ordinary quality XLR cable,
because by design it is almost immune to noise.

There's no such thing as XLR cable - an XLR is the connector. And the
cable used with these is balanced twin screened. It also comes in
several different flavours. ;-)

In the same way as there's no such thing as a phono cable.

I wonder why XLR hasn't filtered down to the mass market? It couldn't
be because they do quite well selling us overdesigned phono cable!

Creating balanced inputs and outputs costs - and introduces extra
electronics since possibly most domestic gear is unbalanced
internally. And XLR connectors are really designed for heavy duty use
- domestic equipment doesn't normally get unplugged each time it's
used.

My point was that as soon as you need to spend £30k on a cable, you should
be using studio-quality technology, which should be ballanced internally.

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Jim H