I bought this cable at the recommendation from one forum that these are compatible with the Fostex D (D80, D-160, D1624) series recorder remotes ... they are not the center line of pins are connected to each other and will short out the Fostex remote card. The cable is stiff. I went so far as to try the cable with its intended use as a VGA extension cable ... hooked up to my Dell monitor on my Roland VS2000 and the monitor was driven into self test mode. This never happened with the VGA cable that came with the monitor. I've sent the cable back.