Analysis Plus Chocolate Oval In Interconnects XLR mt. 1.5 [2nd hand]

The Chocolate Oval-In is an interconnect cable featuring a balanced design. It can be terminated with our new non-locking RCA connectors or Abbatron XLR connectors. The balanced architecture provides superior common-mode noise rejection, resulting in an exceptionally low noise floor and enhanced signal purity.

An outstanding value for both high-end audio and home theater (HT) applications.

Analysis Plus is uniquely qualified as an authority on cable design. The Detroit-based company earned its reputation testing and analyzing cables for leading cable manufacturers whose names you'd recognize in a flash. After examining the best, Analysis Plus decided it could do even better by developing its own proprietary hollow-oval conductor design.

Why the unique conductor geometry? Mark Markel and Qinwei Sun, the chief engineers at Analysis Plus, determined that round cable used in conventional analog 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.