This blue cable is well built. When I got it, I was amazed of the quality of the cable itself, which is very soft and bendable. The quality is excellent also in the XLR ends, very well done, and one has a switch to lock on the microphone. The other just simply goes in the soundcard or preamp if that's your case and it needs a bit of extra slight effort to push it in, as a locking, so you won't get it out when say you trip over the cable in the studio. Very well built, I strongly recommend.