XLR cables for a reasonable price?

Cardas Parsec

I'm a Benchmark fanboi for sure but it's taken me a lot of years to arrive here, so take that for what it's worth.  My DAC3 HGC and AHB2 combo is the best combo I've ever had and the thing that stands out is the astounding S/N ratio, achieved through proper gain structure, shielding, clever power supply's, etc, and cabling is part of that program as well.  In my pro career balanced was the norm, and we'd usually use a DI box to include unbalanced sources, but inputs to the consoles were always balanced, so I was nodding my head at the tech info on the Benchmark site concerning Star-Quad topology.  You can't go wrong with Canare or Mogami 4-conductor cable, with a slight edge, IMO, going to Canare for a touch better EMI/RFi rejection.

Get you some quality cables and don't look back.
https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/116637511-the-importance-of-star-quad-microphone-cable

 

Look for either older NOS or used cables. I’m using a three meter set from RSC. They were either the top or second from the top when they were made.  I paid $500 delivered.

Just received my Atma-Sphere Class D amps.  They’re fantastic right out of the box but I won’t dwell on that since there are enough Class D battles (threads) going on.  Already tried my $2,000 Cardas Clear XLR cables and my $100 Mogami XLR cables between the Class D amps and MP3 preamp.  SQ is the same with either cable.  As I said above, put your money to better use somewhere else in your system.

That's quite remarkable. marco1, do you think it means that the Mogami is so good or that the Cardas is incredibly overpriced?

Anyway, by all means please tell us about those amps, how they sound in your system. I remember that you currently don't have analog source, this is important too.