This Roland Black Series 1/4" TRS to XLR Female Balanced Cable is a 15' audio cable featuring high-quality connectors and a low-capacitance design, great for connecting instruments, effects, studio equipment, and more. It features multistrand oxygen-free copper-core wire and high-density spiral shielding to ensure reliability and quality sound.
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The 4-stars is a compromise: 5 for quality, minus one for majorly incompetent (contradictory) product description and no workable paths to resolve it. I bought this because Roland’s website subtitles this (the RCC-3-TRXM, their 1/4 inch male to 3-pin XLR male 1m cable) as a balanced cable (see 1st pic). But the product diagram on the back of its packaging (see 2nd pic) shows only two leads: one core lead for signal, plus a second coaxial lead (conductive PVC in contact with spiral copper wire; the physical contact means they act as one lead [of two conductor types for better shielding]) as a shield. The diagram shows no third lead that could carry the 180° phase-inverted signal of a balanced cable. So which is it? Is this cable ... ... balanced -- as the Roland website says? ... or unbalanced -- as the product packaging says? Note that XLR cables are almost always balanced, but 1/4 inch cables are split about 50-50 between balanced and merely shielded. There are also rare XLR-to-3.5mm cables, which are always unbalanced. So the terminal ends on this cable dont resolve these contradictory product descriptions. Hypothetically the short length of this cable, at 3 ft, suggests this might be an unbalanced cable. I say this because I mostly read claims that balanced lines are only needed for longer cables, since longer cables act like stronger antennas, picking up RF noise. But, in my experience, this is not always true. Some recording environments such as older theaters with lots of high amperage equipment (light, HVAC motors, etc.) have strong enough local RF impulses to pick up as heavy clicks and shushes on even short runs unbalanced lines, no matter how heavily shielded. Ive spent 1-2 hours today trying to resolved this contradictory product description. But Rolands forum is remarkable useless. Posting to their FB page restricted to $200/yr cloud subscribers. And their email product support wont even allow you to generate an email to them on weekends or holidays. Pretty frustrating. BTW, a heads up to any well-intended nubes: balanced does NOT mean stereo.