Monoprice XLR Female to RCA Male Cable - 3 Feet - Black | With E21Gold Plated Connectors | 16AWG Shielded Twisted Pair Oxygen-Free Copper Braid

Great Sheeting and Improved Transit Levels and playable XLR fitting's

Took a while to receive them but when I got them I was very happy with the quality and look of them, and they are exactly as advertised.

I assume that the products works well. My complaint is that I called for clarification for whether it would work for my intended purpose -- to connect my preamp out (the XLR side of things) to my DAC (the RCA side). I was told it would. It did not, unfortunately. I later learned that this plug will not work because it is essentially connecting a preamp to another preamp. When I switched and used tape out (RCA connections on my amp) to the DAC it worked fine. So there you have it. A nice, but unnecessary set of cables from Monoprice. I'm glad they were only $15.

My two-star rating may or may not be fair...I already had two similar cables from another manufacturer that I had used about a year ago in a similar application, and they worked fine. I planned to use those two cables along with these from Monoprice to connect the balanced outputs for the side and rear surrounds on my Anthem pre-pro to a four-channel amp lacking balanced inputs. After installing the cables and firing the system up, there was a loud buzz in the surround channels. I turned everything off and verified the connections were correct and secure and tried again...same result. Then I removed the four XLR to RCA cables and installed RCA-only cables between the pre-pro and the amp. Everything worked fine, so I have to assume there is an issue with the Monoprice cables, although the buzz was present in all four of the surround channels.