I couldn’t be more pleased with this cable adapter solution, a lot of things have changed and evolved when it comes to audio recording, certainly between the end to end device. I get tired of having to use two, three, four, five individual adapters to try to adapt slowly to the in device which would do the recording only to have the audio quality be degraded.When it comes to recording for videos and podcast, you want to be able to use professional level microphones, while at the same time use these incredible all digital powerful software applications that run on your mobile devices.This cable provides a streamline solution that’s lightweight, and also it’s length of cable is absolutely perfect, because if you’re using your microphone on a tall boom or tripod and need to have your iPhone or iPad closer to you to monitor the audio, this works great with the length of the cable.Also I cannot hear any distortion, the noise levels are extremely extremely low, it really allows the audio to come through absolutely perfect at 24bit 48Hz. Now what you’re seeing in my photographs as my microphone is a Rode NTG4+ microphone that has a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery with in it, with the Rode shotgun mic blimp enclosure around it.The cable has a solid build to it and is fashioned to be very sturdy and should last a long time, however please understand the limitations as there is workarounds so you can use basically any XLR microphone you just have to really pay attention to the requirements of your microphone and I’m going to get into that now. Most professional microphones that people have and purchase, do require what they call phantom power (P24 or P48), that is power that is transmitted into the microphone via the XLR cable which this phantom power is basically injected into the cable by using professional amplifiers and or recorders. *Please note, if you’re not using a professional microphone that has built in internal power via a battery (like the NT1A which was mentioned in the one star review, that mic is an example of a mic that requires either P24 or P48 power), This cable solution will not work as an independent solution, because it cannot provide phantom power to the microphone; as your mobile phone or tablet cannot produce that, this cable solution will not work because it cannot provide phantom power to the microphone, your mobile phone or tablet cannot produce 24V or 48V as an output through its lightning or USB-C connection.*You’re going to need to make sure you have a self powered microphone or you can find phantom XLR power injectors easily on Amazon or B&H photo for around $40, it’s like 4” long or so, and it has a built-in battery, it’s basically fashioned as a coupler, that the you would fit in between the plug on your XLR microphone and the XLR end of this cable.