{"id":452172,"date":"2021-08-09T14:30:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/?p=452172"},"modified":"2024-07-23T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T11:09:49","slug":"what-makes-a-cable-a-good-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/gear\/what-makes-a-cable-a-good-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Cable a Good Cable?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Us musicians stock up on the highest quality equipment such as cool guitars, trendy workstations, fancy effects, mixers, amplifiers and cabinets, and we’re happy. And then we pick up a puny cable<\/a> and wonder why our signal path is noisy, creaky or unstable. Shouldn’t we focus more on our signal path? It would be pretty logical to invest in good cables. But what on earth is a good cable<\/a>?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Don’t underestimate the mechanical stress on cables and connectors<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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It’s obvious, no matter how professional your stage technology is, it’s never a match against rough or clumsy musicians. Therefore, we should place great importance on the mechanical load capacity of the cables<\/a><\/strong>. This applies to the cable itself, but above all to the metal plugs<\/strong>, be they jack plugs<\/strong> between electric guitar and amp, XLR plugs<\/strong> between microphone and mixing console or wherever else.<\/p>\n\n\t\t