the sssnake SM10BK

You get what you pay for – the sssnake cables are the cheapest there are. In my experience, there are three options about the cable quality: they arrive broken (happens about 1/20 cases), they last for a few uses (like 1/10) and the rest will totally exceed your expectations and last a few years (17/20). The wires seem elastic, the connectors are a little clunky, but, if you aren't doing anything more complex than attaching a mic to a soundboard, the quality is adequate.

If I were on tour, I would buy a load of these to be used in case of emergency. Additionally, these are good for simple, amateur tasks, such as (as in my case) connecting a couple of mics to a H6.

I have used this cable for PA work and after extensive use I'd say it is a good product for a price. Ideally I would choose this for some stationary application where you plug it in and forget about it, not wind-unwind it, constantly step on it on stage etc. Connector quality is good and durable, they fit and connect good. In heavy duty use screws, that secure connector to cable, may come loose and fall out, make sure to check them once in a while. Also if your singer (in case cable is connected to mic) is aerobics teacher or jumping rabbit on stage, in heavy use cable conductor may break near connectors so you'd need to cut it and resolder it. As for conductor quality, I don't believe in gold-silver-whatever-unobtanium made cables and all that myths, it's a cable all right, it works and it works good.

Overall it's good cable for a price. For stationary use it's perfect. For intensive PA & stage work I would recommend to cough up few euros and buy a PRO Snake one (TPM 10).

I purchased a number of these cables 3 years ago. Some are going strong without a glitch and others have needed resoldering near the collectors so they clearly are not all the same. Overall I think a great product for the price but maybe the quality control could be a little better in the manufacture process. And, for the record, I look after my cables. Always coil them correctly (over under) etc... I think perhaps they could be better suited to an environment where they don't move around so much (maybe a studio of something) as opposed to being on the road and uncoiled/coiled every day for weeks at a time. Perhaps not the most robust cable out there. Anyway, despite that, think they are basically a good product. One expects a cable to fail every once and a while.