Monoprice 104770 10-Feet Premier Series XLR Female to 1/4-Inch TRS Male 16AWG Cable Monoprice's line of Professional Audio cables brings you high performance cables at rock bottom prices Balanced audio cables utilize impedance balanced lines that reduce EM and RF noise and extend the effective range of the cable run They have a separate braided shield to provide additional resistance to interference without modulating the interference into the signal