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In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a "Analysis Pro Plus
Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar cable! It even
won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as "Warm, full-bodied,
and liquis smooth," and truely "reference quality."

How do these people live with themselves?

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Ratt Mahem wrote:
> In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a "Analysis Pro Plus
> Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar cable! It even
> won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as "Warm, full-bodied,
> and liquis smooth," and truely "reference quality."
>
> How do these people live with themselves?
>

LOL! I love how they always try to justify this BS with non-sensical
"scientific" babble:

Proprietary Hollow Oval Geometry

Why the unique conductor geometry of Pro Oval? Mark Markel and Qinwei
Sun, the chief engineers at Analysis Plus, determined that round cable
used in conventional speaker cable designs has high levels of current
bunching, skin effect phenomenon, and other frequency characteristics
that degrade signal quality. Rectangular conductors were a little
better, but these suffered high electric field values caused by sharp
corners which can also cut into and injure the dielectric when the cable
is flexed.

After many computer simulations, Analysis Plus found that a hollow oval
cable was the best design due to its minimal change in resistance with
frequency, plus other benefits. The company chose a flexible, braided
conductor rather than the conventional solid conductor, which is
susceptible to kinks and deformations with resulting signal degradation.
A unique woven pattern places every wire statistically as close to the
return current as every other wire for evenly distributed high-current
density and superior sound.

LMAO! Excuse me while I go flange my VU meters.

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Ratt Mahem wrote:
> In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a "Analysis Pro Plus
> Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar cable! It even
> won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as "Warm, full-bodied,
> and liquis smooth," and truely "reference quality."
>
> How do these people live with themselves?
>
February 2004... obviously.

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"Ratt Mahem" <rattmahem@aol.com> wrote in message
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> In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a
"Analysis Pro Plus
> Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar
cable! It even
> won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as "Warm,
full-bodied,
> and liquis smooth," and truely "reference quality."
>
> How do these people live with themselves?

Expectations of great profit.
 
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There was an article or "shoot out" of various expen$ive guitar cables
in Vintage Guitar magazine that made me sick... these guys write like
wanna-bee wine reviewers.

Al

On Sun, 22 May 2005 14:25:38 -0600, Ratt Mahem <rattmahem@aol.com>
wrote:

>In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a "Analysis Pro Plus
>Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar cable! It even
>won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as "Warm, full-bodied,
>and liquis smooth," and truely "reference quality."
>
>How do these people live with themselves?
 
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"Ratt Mahem" <rattmahem@aol.com> wrote in message
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> In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a "Analysis Pro Plus
> Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar cable! It even
> won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as "Warm, full-bodied,
> and liquis smooth," and truely "reference quality."
>
> How do these people live with themselves?
>
> --
> Ratt Mahem
> www.themourningsickness.com

For the guitar player who makes $1,000/song/performance?
 
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Ratt Mahem wrote:

> In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a "Analysis Pro Plus
> Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar cable! It even
> won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as "Warm, full-bodied,
> and liquis smooth," and truely "reference quality."

> How do these people live with themselves?

Cluelessness breeds self content.

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I guess it's tile to start production... We'll all clean up.
http://www.bstock.com/Lirpa1.htm



On 5/22/05 4:25 PM, in article 0YmdndDDS7AGdw3fRVn-3Q@comcast.com, "Ratt
Mahem" <rattmahem@aol.com> wrote:

> In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a "Analysis Pro Plus
> Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar cable! It even
> won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as "Warm, full-bodied,
> and liquis smooth," and truely "reference quality."
>
> How do these people live with themselves?
 
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"Using a proprietary and patented rare earth carbon nanotube
sputtering process and employing exclusive vapor deposited molybdenum
precipitate occlusions the Lirpa 1 engineering team has achieved the
elusive and long sought mil spec for multiple rebendables making it
surprisingly robust -and thermally self approximating!"


You gotta love it... where can I buy some shares in this outfit?

Al




On Mon, 23 May 2005 14:08:30 GMT, SSJVCmag <ten@nozirev.gamnocssj.com>
wrote:

>I guess it's tile to start production... We'll all clean up.
>http://www.bstock.com/Lirpa1.htm
>
>
>
>On 5/22/05 4:25 PM, in article 0YmdndDDS7AGdw3fRVn-3Q@comcast.com, "Ratt
>Mahem" <rattmahem@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a "Analysis Pro Plus
>> Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar cable! It even
>> won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as "Warm, full-bodied,
>> and liquis smooth," and truely "reference quality."
>>
>> How do these people live with themselves?
 
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Ratt Mahem wrote:
> In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a "Analysis Pro Plus
> Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar cable! It
> even won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as "Warm,
> full-bodied, and liquis smooth," and truely "reference quality."
>

Try a cheap standard TV co-axial cable as a guitar cable. You might well
be be surprized.

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> Ratt Mahem wrote:

> > In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a
"Analysis Pro Plus
> > Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar
cable! It
> > even won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as
"Warm,
> > full-bodied, and liquis smooth," and truely "reference
quality."

> Try a cheap standard TV co-axial cable as a guitar cable.
You might well
> be be surprized.

Guitar cable is an example of an inductive high impedance
source (the pickup) driving a capacitive load (the cable).
What would usually be trivial changes in cable capacitance
could make an audible difference.

I'm kinda surprised that there aren't more guitar cables
made up of low-capacitance cable and a switchable variable
capacitor load.


It's a completely different situation than line-level
interconnects.
 
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Anahata wrote:

>
> Isn't it about time guitar pickups were wound at a lower impedance, so
> they'd work with a mic input and be relatively unaffected by cable
> capacitance and microphony? Mics managed that change years ago!


Les Paul has been championing low impedance guitar pickups since at
least the early 1970's. He managed to bend Gibson's ear enough to
release the Les Paul Recording, the Les Paul Signature, & the
(original) L-5S models with low impedance pickups.

Sales for those models all tanked. Gibson even wound up re-releasing
the L-5S w/ standard high impedance humbuckers.

Part of the problem is that low impedance guitar pickups DO indeed
sound different -- so different that guitarists were baffled by the
sound of those instruments. None of their old tone settings on their
amps worked anymore. The "flaws" of a traditional high impedance pickup
have become deeply integrated into the idiomatic sound of electric
guitar; what makes sense as an "improvement" in theory is often at odds
with the aim of the musician.
 

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If you wanted to feed a High Z guitar pickup into a Low Z mic input, I
bet you could use one of those inline hi to low Z mic transformers with
1/4" plug on one side and XLR on the other. You would be using it
"backwards" but it should work fine. You could then even use
standard mic cable. Only problem is having the somewhat bulky
transformer stuck on the front of the guitar.

Mark
 
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Arny Krueger <arnyk@hotpop.com> wrote:
>"Kevin Aylward" <see_website@anasoft.co.uk> wrote in message
>> Ratt Mahem wrote:
>
>> > In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a
>"Analysis Pro Plus
>> > Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar
>cable! It
>> > even won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as
>"Warm,
>> > full-bodied, and liquis smooth," and truely "reference
>quality."
>
>> Try a cheap standard TV co-axial cable as a guitar cable.
>You might well
>> be be surprized.
>
>Guitar cable is an example of an inductive high impedance
>source (the pickup) driving a capacitive load (the cable).
>What would usually be trivial changes in cable capacitance
>could make an audible difference.

Absolutely. Even connectors can make audible differences in this
sort of situation.

But, I am not sure that still justifies charging $30/foot for what is
probably an off-the-shelf bulk cable.
--scott


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In article <1117038589.459188.18280@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Mark <makolber@yahoo.com> wrote:
>If you wanted to feed a High Z guitar pickup into a Low Z mic input, I
>bet you could use one of those inline hi to low Z mic transformers with
>1/4" plug on one side and XLR on the other. You would be using it
>"backwards" but it should work fine. You could then even use
>standard mic cable. Only problem is having the somewhat bulky
>transformer stuck on the front of the guitar.

This is called a "passive DI box." It doesn't work all that well since
you can't make a transformer with a high enough input impedance to
make a typical pickup happy. For that, you need an active DI like
the Countryman.
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Arny Krueger wrote:
> "Kevin Aylward" <see_website@anasoft.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:GEBke.90318$a9.76393@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
>> Ratt Mahem wrote:
>
>>> In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a "Analysis Pro
>>> Plus Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar
>>> cable! It even won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as
>>> "Warm, full-bodied, and liquis smooth," and truely "reference
>>> quality."
>
>> Try a cheap standard TV co-axial cable as a guitar cable. You might
>> well be be surprized.
>
> Guitar cable is an example of an inductive high impedance
> source (the pickup) driving a capacitive load (the cable).
> What would usually be trivial changes in cable capacitance
> could make an audible difference.

Indeed it does, as do the facts.

>
> I'm kinda surprised that there aren't more guitar cables
> made up of low-capacitance cable and a switchable variable
> capacitor load.

Yep. The first time I actually tried this, I was quite surprised. Much
better treble. The numbers actually bare this out. A 2H pickup is some
inductance.

I just did a little SuperSpice simulation on an RG-50.

Pickup model as a 5k resistance with 2H inductance, cable into a 1Mohm
load, there was a 15db peak at 10Khz, 3db down at 15Khz, then rapid
rolloff. Doubling the capcitance/length moved the peak to 6.3Khz, 3db at
10Khz.

I don't think anyone can deny the audibility differences of such peaks
and rolloffs.

Do you have any idea of the inductance and capacitance of mics? I did
some runs with guesses, but it don't seem to be audible as far as the
sims go. You need about 100mH to get a decent audible difference, but I
don't think mics are going to get much past 1mH, if that. Its hard to
get the data, and I havent investigated much on this before.

>
>
> It's a completely different situation than line-level
> interconnects.

Yep.

Those that keep questioning you and me seem to belive that we are
denying *all* differences, just because we claim that *some* differences
are not audible. The err..difference, is that we know when there is a
difference and when there is not.

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"Kevin Aylward" wrote ...
> I just did a little SuperSpice simulation on an RG-50.

Did you take into account the triboelectric effect of the coax
dielectric? Those kinds of cables are made for low-impedance
use where they are fine. OTOH some of them make excelent
microphones at high impedance.

And all the ones I've ever seen are way too stiff for any
e-guitar player I've ever met.
 
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Richard Crowley wrote:
> "Kevin Aylward" wrote ...
>> I just did a little SuperSpice simulation on an RG-50.
>
> Did you take into account the triboelectric effect of the coax
> dielectric? Those kinds of cables are made for low-impedance
> use where they are fine. OTOH some of them make excelent
> microphones at high impedance.

Indeed.

>
> And all the ones I've ever seen are way too stiff for any
> e-guitar player I've ever met.

Well, yes, but that wasn't really the point of the bit of the
discussion.

What I was doing was highlighting where cables do actually make a real
difference to the sound, and where such differences are firmly backed up
technical considerations such as frequency response. This is to contrast
the condition where people claim that speaker cables open up a new world
of realism, rather than just opening up their wallets.

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On Wed, 25 May 2005 07:37:34 -0400, Arny Krueger <arnyk@hotpop.com> wrote:
>
> "Kevin Aylward" <see_website@anasoft.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:GEBke.90318$a9.76393@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
>> Ratt Mahem wrote:
>
>> > In the Feb 2204 Guitar Player, they were hawking a
> "Analysis Pro Plus
>> > Oval Studio" cable for $299. 300 bucks for a 10' guitar
> cable! It
>> > even won the "Editor's Pick Award" and was described as
> "Warm,
>> > full-bodied, and liquis smooth," and truely "reference
> quality."
>
>> Try a cheap standard TV co-axial cable as a guitar cable.
> You might well
>> be be surprized.
>
> Guitar cable is an example of an inductive high impedance
> source (the pickup) driving a capacitive load (the cable).
> What would usually be trivial changes in cable capacitance
> could make an audible difference.
>
> I'm kinda surprised that there aren't more guitar cables
> made up of low-capacitance cable and a switchable variable
> capacitor load.
>

OTOH, low-capacitance cable is easy to find and spec. The only trick is
sourcing a neophrene jacketed version.

PVC jackets don't really hold up for most guitar players.