Vintage Guitar magazine

"Stellar Achievement"

Analysis Plus Pro Oval Guitar Cable

The renowned engineering firm Analysis Plus, Inc. designs and manufactures products to exacting specifications, with performance and quality as their top priorities. We tested the pre-production prototype of their new Pro Oval instrument cable, a stellar achievement for fans of transparency.

Utilizing a patented oval design, Teflon structural and outer dielectrics, Litz stranding, Ohno cast copper and carefully chosen shielding materials, they've created the most revealing cable we've heard to date. The detail/air this cable passes is akin to an electrostatic speaker panel. The feel is quite nice for a cable of this transparency level and dynamics are amazing... it responds to every nuance of attack. Dimension is of the highest order, as your amp will now sound like it has far more depth than with most other cables. And accuracy is also increased, with wider note separation and less washout.

While jazz artists and some country and clean blues players will rejoice at its piano-like clarity, the amount of high end it's capable of transmitting makes it inappropriate for use with overdrive or distortion. The cable is stiffer than most, but easy enough to work with for the applications listed. Although ours came with quality plugs, we're told the production cables will achieve even more higher resolution through custom designed terminations.

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Eric Kirkland Vintage Guitar May 2003