There's a big jump in price between cheap and good mic arms, and sadly this one falls in the former category on the cable routing. I can live with the XLR cable ends (OK, I
can't, I swapped them for Neutriks), the big let down was that the vertical arm traps and squashes the cable where it is routed in the base. A poor design, which also makes it impossible to pull the cable through when the lead isn't quite long enough for the position of the mic head. If it wasn't for the fact I needed to shorten the overall cable length and use starquad due to some nearby electrical interference, I would have sent them back.