I bought mogami gold RCAs a long time ago, and use them.  I will need longer cables soon for new mono amps, and they need to be XLR.

 

I found a 2 foot 'patch cable' from Mogami that I will use from source to preamp, but long runs are identified as 'microphone cable'.

 

I want to be sure I'm not unwittingly running some crazy out-of-spec cords from my pinnacle to future power amps with microphone cable, as identified by Mogami.

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002E1P30/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LNN2EQ/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

this is the same shit, right?

All of the Canare, Mogami, Belden, etc. bulk cable suitable for ICs is termed microphone cable.

Well, yeah

sweet.

 

i won't have money for fancy dancy audiophile cables, the amps are going to take all my discretionary money for a while.

the mogami has the word 'gold' in it though.

 

GOLD, JERRY!

Microphone cables are actually better, because they're designed for weak signals over long runs.

The key with this issue is just to not use them for digital XLR and you'll be fine.

They're fine for aes over xlr too. That's how the aes standard was made.