Hi good old Soviet here,

A friend of mine does the karaoke singing, but he is always getting the faulty microphone lead, that is always the rubber soft type, with screen and centre multi stranded.

He replaced cable last summer season, and again before Christmas also. Today he brings it to me again and center conductor is having a break in 6 metre length somewhere, for tip of jack plug. These are seeming to be rubbish always.

Is any Briskolian knowing of the good cable to use, instead of the rubber one that is always going faulty, as I will solder on to make the plugs?

Thank you

Soviet:rolleyes:

Try CPC | CPC - Over 100, 000 products from one of the worlds leading distributors of electronic and related products. they do a good range of Mic cables - super flex types as well.

If for karaoke use then you would expect some rough treatment and would be considered 'normal' to have to attend to cables & plugs on a regular basis

I prefer XLR terminated cables as they tend to be made out of more flexible cable as they are aimed at pro use only. Since it sounds like your chap wants a good quality cable, then you need a properly flexible cable.

Maplin are easy for anyone to get the cable from and do this range which I have used before:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=133

Add these connectors which are aimed at theatre use etc and do withstand a lot of abuse and you should have a cable that lasts a bit longer:

Jack:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=1232

XLR:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=219903

If you want just cable, I really rate proel cables. I had a couple go, but that's nearly always down to my soldering at the sockets. They tend to pop out of the sockets if tugged on rather than breaking the cable!

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And as above, decent mic cable should always be terminated in XLR, as this is sheilded