Cable from amp to guitar advice please?

[sgosnell]

Yes, the site says gold. But I've seen no evidence of gold plating. Perhaps it's there, but it's certainly brass underneath it if it's there.

[jackalGreen]

Another plug for braided cords. I don't use anything else for guitars if I can help it. I'm happy with the GLS brand cables: low-mid price, good construction, and IMHO, they look cool in that gold tweed braiding.

Strong preference for non-molded connectors. Yes, I have a heat gun and shrink tubes, and soldering equipment, but I'd just rather not deal with cutting those open only to add a tiny dot of solder, and then shrink it up again with heat shrink tube.

I wonder how many guitarists, even if they're not using super-long runs, use balanced 1/4" cables (sometimes called "stereo" cables, or just TRS [tip-ring-sleeve] for brevity). I know a lot of pedals/stompboxes can't handle a TRS balanced cable (for...reasons that I've forgotten...just the way the boxes are wired), but as primarily a keyboard player, I have loads of regular TRS 1/4" cables, not necessarily for long runs, but just because I got in the habit of using them, what, like thirty years ago or so.

And, yeah, I use Monoprice cables as well for some things. All kinds of audio equipment, or whatever, just a hodgepodge of acceptable quality cables with all kinds of terminations.

[GuyBoden]

What I like best are cables that don't tangle, so I wrap them around a broom handle first before using them, so they're slightly coiled in use.

All good quality audio cables sound the same to my ears, a good quality electric signal is what really matters.

[sgosnell]

Amplifiers, pedals, etc have only two connections, so a TRS cable can be used, but only the tip and sleeve will be connected, so it's not a balanced signal, and hum can be an issue. Better to use the type of cable for which the equipment was designed.