Analysis Plus "Yellow Oval" Instrument Cable - 10ft.

The YELLOW OVAL instrument cable is a best seller. It has won Editor’s pick in Bass Player and Keyboard magazine. It is the cable John Mayer, Richard Bona, Paul Carrack, Jeremy Meek, Chris Rodriguez & Brad Rice of Keith Urban’s Band, Peter Holstrom, Rick Rosasa (Neil Young’s band), Jack Casady (Hot Tuna), Jaime David Vazquez and many other great players love. The conductors are low loss 18 gauge oxygen free copper woven in our patented oval design. It is a balanced design (not coaxial like others). To get maximum performance you wouldn’t put bicycle tires on a Ferrari – the same is true for your guitar and amp.

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The following slide show is the first finite element computer simulation ever done looking inside 3 different copper conductors geometries. You are looking at the current inside a cross section of 3 different wires at different frequencies. Before this we use to guess what the current looked inside a conductor and talk about skin effect but ignore the proximity effect because we could not model it. Read our white paper for more detail.

Why do Hollow Oval cables sound better?

As the frequency is raised to 4 kHz, non-uniform current distribution appears in the round conductor cable. This change alters the resistance and inductance properties of the cable, an unwanted effect.

Why do Hollow Oval cables sound better?

The plots at 10 kHz show increased areas of reduced current density for both the rectangular and round geometries. The effect is much more pronounced for the round conductor, which leads to greater changes in its electrical parameters.

With API’s Hollow Oval design, note the uniform current distribution, even at 20 kHz. This is why the electrical properties of the API cables don’t change, and why more of the music is delivered to your speakers and to your ears.