pro/tour-grade guitar cables and acceptable life-span

  • I'll get laughed out of here, but be patient please. 🙂

    Guitar Player magazine did a huge test of cables about 20 or 30 years ago, testing their inductance, dropping cymbals on them, etc...

    The clear winners for sound quality were George L and the new Planet Waves.

    I bought a few 10 metre Planet Waves (George L are too fragile for me) and proceeded to blind test them against my existing ones, with my wife in the other room. Every time I switched to the Planet Waves she noticed the sound was significantly brighter and more clear. That was my take as well. I still have 2 of the 4 (one failed, one stolen by a bassist).

    I've also had some not so great more recent Planet Waves experience (failing, mostly), so I suspect they've knocked the quality back for profit over the years.

    I may have seen the same article, which is why I went George L's.....very expensive waste of money IMO.

    I then tended to use Planet Waves and never had an issue. They would be my go to if I was using cables now as they seemed reliable to me although can't quote any sonic differences.

  • hi,

    I use a lot of Sommer cables. Very good quality, just one failed two times, spirit black zilk I think. I can definetly recommend Sommer.

    they also make some pretty nice multi core cables. With up to 8 pairs plus power and/or ethernet in one cable. We use these together with Harting plugs for the backline. Set up in no time…

  • thanks for all the comments, everyone.

    Anyone used Sommer SC-SPIRIT LLX LOW LOSS Instrument Cable cable?

    (thats just the cable, not a ready-to-go lead)

    I bought this one years ago :

    https://www.thomann.de/gb/sommer_cabl…UiOjJ9&reload=1

    The definition is excellent but the angled jack broke a year after and was useless....:cursing::thumbdown:

    There are other solutions with sommer cables and other jacks..... I don't advice this one of course :rolleyes: