[Sid Brunskill]

Guess I’ll be going with the Maplin one then.

But do note that the RODE one is gold plated whereas the Maplin one is nickel plated. Have you ever experienced better quality with gold plated products?

And one last question, it’ll be OK to just tape the cable to the boom pole right? I noticed there are small clips for that on the RODE website, but they’re rather expensive for what appear to be simply pieces of plastic.

[Sid Brunskill]

According to the RODE extension, it has “two core shielding”, but this one I found (At a store similar to RadioShack) claims that it’s “fully screened” https://www.maplin.co.uk/3.5mm-stereo-extension-lead-11425

Do you think “two core shielding” would actually benefit much? I’m guessing it has two layers of shielding.

Also researching “Shielded cable”, “Shielded” and “Screened” are synonymous – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shielded_cable