Ancable 10-Pack 6.35mm Male Audio 1/4" Plugs TRS Phone Plug, Solder Type

It has been quite a while since I've submitted a review of a product. I tend to be a bit more critical than most people, I guess. I also have no tolerance for inferior anything. I guess I get too "scratchy" in my reviews. When I got the email to share my experience, I was going to pass. Then, I remembered how quickly these arrived & what a really good quality these are for this price. As always, I WAS just going to write a few lines & say these are great & call it a day. Well, I'll just say that I wrote this review & then came back & wrote this paragraph afterward. I don't think "a few lines" is accurate. But I did delete a bunch of stuff. Don't allow mysalty writing over shadow the quality, professional product & more than reasonable cost.I bought a ten pack of these because I got tired of purchasing cables that I'm quite capable of making myself. As an added bonus of that, I don't have any 20 foot cables that connect two things that are touching each other. I make a cable (or two) that are the correct length. It looks like I have fewer cables, so it's better organized, but I've really just reduced the amount of cable. With two of these plugs (by the way, saying it's a male plug is not neccessary, plugs ARE male. Jacks are female. I know. We all want to know why the female is called a jack. anyway...) I can take one of my 20 foot balanced cables, cut it in half & make two 10 foot balanced cables. It's not that hard. With a little practice it's actually easy & kinda fun. As long as you don't solder yourself & wear protective eyewear.I bought 1 pack to check them out & see the quality. Pictures are nice, but nothing beats holding one in your hand. They're nice & heavy (for a plug). They're "well built" or "sturdy" type heavy. The soldering lugs are well spaced so I had NO problems with the Tip & Ring shorting with each other or to the Sleeve (ground). The hole in the lugs is plenty big for stranded wire to easily slip through after the strands are tinned & still keep the wires in place while being soldered. Each plug has a clear plastic insulator sleve that slips over the finished soldered lugs so wires don't ground to the inside of the metal collar (if you can remember to put the casing on the cable, then the insulator & slide them up out of your way & THEN wire up & solder the plug). Once the plug is soldered on & cools a few seconds, then slide the insulator down & slip it over the lugs carefully, then slide the casing down & screw it in place & test for contuity. These plugs have all of the features that I'm used to getting on the high priced ones, except the high prices. Since I was so pleasantly surprised by the great quality & price of these, I bought more of them & went on a cable making bender. It's always a good idea to have spare cables. It's not a good idea to wait until one quits working or one of the knuckleheads in you band steps on a cable that's plugged into the board or something. Don't go, "Ohh, my poor cable". Go, "Ohh, my $5000 mixer board! It's a good thing I have extra cables". Save the board. Fix the cables another time.Once I received my first order of these, I noticed that I already had cables with plugs on them that look exactly like these, that I purchased several years ago & they still look like I just made them a day ago. They're in great shape & holding up nicely. Granted it's been a while since I toured & "as a rule", cables in the studio, don't take the abuse that cables on the road do. Be that as it may, I've noticed over the years, that poor quality stands out with little help. OK. let me rephrase that. The crappy stuff breaks no matter how gingerly it's treated. The great quality stuff often goes unnoticed (the squeaky wheel & all that). It's often hard to tell what brand a plug is. Some of the expensive ones stamp their company name on them as advertising. The cheapo ones don't, because if your not sure your product is good enough to last for a while, maybe it's better just to sneak in, under the radar, so nobody knows who make those crappy connectors. These deserve to have their stamp on them so people know what company makes these great plugs for such a great price. I'd better wrap it up. Great price for such a high quality product. I use them. They last. Did I mention that I can break ANYTHING? I can break dirt. Without even trying. I haven't broken ANY of these of the 30 or so plugs I've make cables out of, ALL are still looking & working great. So I finally found something I can't break without trying. It's about time....

Very well made and solid jacks

They seem to be well made. Used for making up cables to connect a mic preamp to an audio interface. The standard for most mixers/audio interfaces is that mic level inputs are XLR connectors, line in will be for a TRS balanced/unbalanced input. That eliminates the need to select line in or mic in with a switch. As sturdy and well made as any I've used since I started 50 years ago, an as a radio engineer and on recording engineer.

Product is ok if mislabeled at purchase

Made custom audio cables and all of them worked well

Everything I needed right there and shipped pretty fast..Thanks

These 1/4" plugs are solid! They're easy to solder to, and they don't have bits which start to melt when your iron sits on the tab a little longer than you probably should have it there. I've bought the cheap stuff and I always regret it (they melt easily). I've also bought the expensive stuff and never felt it was worth the price premium. But these are very forgiving, have a good heft to them without being bulky, and don't feel cheap. I won't hesitate to buy them again.

For the price these are well made plugs. No issues so far.