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The XLR's connect to one another so you just coil as many cables as will fit on a reel.
Can usually find them for a tenner at a garden centre.
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Two problems with the reel:
I would suggest the biggest problem for cables isn't "kinking" it's pulling and stretching which is exactly what you do to get the cable out of the reel, oops.
The best bit about "over/under" is that you can throw a long lead across a stage and it will fall straight. If you try to throw this reel it will land at your feet, eventually with broken filaments inside.
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Over/under is still the best because it introduces no unnecessary stress into the cable at all - the whole point is that as you twist it slightly, the cable naturally wants to make a circle all by itself, and by alternating opposite directions the cumulative total twist is zero. Everyone who works with cables of any sort should learn this way to do it, it's like riding a bike - you may not always want or need to do it but you'll never forget how... I was taught it by an ex-BBC engineer decades ago. And I've still never 'thrown' a cable to unwind it - that isn't the point at all, it's to prevent the cable breaking by being constantly twisted internally.
Over/over is OK when you're winding it up, but the temptation is just to pull it out straight when you use it again.
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Even then it's possible to muck it up, allowing the loose end to fall through the central 0 can result in a series of knots in your cable when you do unwind it, whatever way you choose to do that.