How about a different perspective?
These are cables from my grab and go recording bag. I call it my CACK bag, or, my Cables and Crap Kit.
If I ever ask you to carry this bag,... [laughs maniacally smilie here]
l-to-r: Canare L4E6S 50' xlr pair -- 25' Canare L4E6S pair -- 17' L4E6S pair -- 7' Belden 1804a SPC xlr pair with custom right angle Stubby (mic) ends - 18" 1804a breakout xlr pair w/ custom Stubby ends.
Then i have this wonderful compact two channel stereo mic preamp, DPA MMA6000. Compact, 9v battery powered 35dB or so of clean gain, stereo output.
But, it has its own list of needs to support it.
Microdots - oh holy crap! Mother Of All Things Evil,... microdots:
These are very fine wire coaxial cables. DPA utilized microdots on a fabulous series of miniature microphones, the 406x, and a newer series that I'm less familiar with.
In this image, I'm also showing the MMA6000 two channel stereo preamp, and, Edirol R09 high-res portable recorder. The small gold connectors on the mics are microdots, as well as on the preamp face:
The output side of the preamp is a 3.5mm/1/8" stereo jack. I've built numerous adaptors for this output format.
This is the output side. It is a simple 3.5mm stereo jack,... that is awkwardly buried in a housing that disallows normal right angle out. I also use typical straight connectors in different configurations, as shown, but with odd terminal configurations.
The cable adaptor set above allows me to utilize one single mono XLR cable run as a two channel unbalanced stereo cable run. It is a 3.5mm stereo connect to three-pin xor connector. The, the opposie end termintaes into a pair of RCA ends, that can be further adapted as needs to tip-sleeve, un-bal xlr, or even back to 3.5mm stereo.
Shown is the XLR->RCA cable pair, with RCA->TS 1/4" pin adaptors.
Microdots front side (third party extension cables), and the 3.5mm/XLR out the back:
I velcro the putput cable to the body of the preamp on both top and bottom to keep it locked into place: