4 Channel 3-Pin XLR Snake Multi Network Snake Receiver to Single Ethercon Cable XLR Snake Box Extender for Stage Lighting and Recording Studio- XLR/AES/DMX Channel Over Cat5E/Cat6/Cat7 Ethercon Cable

I have a broadcast studio where I needed to feed four channels of audio across the building. Normally that would require fishing up to four cables through the ceiling. This guy saved the day.I plugged one end into an ethernet jack, then jumpered it to another jack at the other end of the building (it's not IP, so DON'T run it through your router!) and boom! Audio where I need it to go!The box is well constructed out of aluminum and feels solid, and the XLR cables are nice and long.I'll definitely be buying more of these!

This is a 4-Channel XLR Snake that is compatible with DMX, AES, analog audio. There are two boxes; each has four cables, 3 feet in length. The cables have 3 pin XLR connectors. There are male XLR connectors on one box, female on the other. An RJ 45 Ethernet cable carries all the signals between the two boxes.Both boxes and all connectors are metal construction. The cables are different colors, clearly numbered 1 thru 4. They are durable with good quality connections at the XLR ends.I tested with DMX data in cable 1 and analog audio in cable 2 and had no issues. Note:  The system is rated to carry 48V Phantom Power; however, I did not test this.This system is an excellent way to carry multiple signals between two points using one cable. The reasonable cost makes it a great value.

I do some work with local community theatre groups, occasionally well enough to take on the title of Technical Director. Usually, our shows are in smaller theatre spaces where lights and sound aren't always available and we have to pack in the gear we want. While I'm more involved with scenic design, props and lighting than I am with sound, I know that we've got enough DMX cables for everything that being able to convert some of it over to ethernet is lighter and cheaper (and it doesn't hurt that I used to work IT and am comfortable making ethernet cables as needed). So while I can't speak much about how well this snake will be for your audio hookups, all 4 channels seemed to handle the lighting DMX commands without issue. All my testing was with a RGB LED parcan connected to one of the snake adapters, though an off-the-shelf cat 6 cables (picture of the shorter cable, but tested with a 30ft cable as well) with the controls using Luminair on an iPad and transmitted over wifi to a wifi to dmx adapter connected to the receiving side of the snake. Not the nicest most professional solution, but it's pretty close to what we've been using for our shows and enough to test out the snake. I can understand why some people may have some issues with the shorter DMX cables connected to the interface boxes, the connectors on them seem solid and include a metal locking mechanism so if paired with some decent quality DMX cables, I don't think you would need to be too worried about connections coming loose on any extensions you may need.While the $100 price can be a bit high for a small developing community theatre group if we need to run a few long lines, this can easily start offsetting the cost of decent quality DMX/XLR cables while also making our setups go a little faster.

The pinouts/routing are correct, so it has that going for it. The cable "gland" passthrough isn't great, and has no additional protection for the wires getting damaged from bending. It does not appear that it would be repairable if the passthrough were to be damaged. The XLR connectors are actually pretty nice. The soldering and assembly are what I would consider to be below an acceptable quality to leave the factory. The connectors have nice, clean, smooth, plated solder cups to place the wires in, yet the assembler inexplicably chose to tack the wire to the outside, rounded surfaces on many of them. It is as though not only were they never trained, but had also never seen one that was done correctly. I will need to re-do them before I would be comfortable trusting them in a working environment.

I use this in my studio to make cable management easier and cleaner. The materials feel great and it works with no issues!