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Guitar: $1800. Pickup system: $250. Amplifier: $600. Cable that connects all of these: $15. What's wrong with this picture? We guitarists are willing to spend hundreds of dollars—if not thousands of dollars—to get the best tone out of our live rig or recording equipment. And yet we inexplicably connect all this high-end gear with cheap cables. I'm as guilty as anyone of this mistake. The obvious reason is, of course, that expensive cables are, well, expensive. But I think the main reason they seem expensive is that musicians figure the cable doesn't matter. Well, it does—more than you may realize.

My ears were first opened by a Kordex Cable loaned to me by my friend David Enke of Pickup the World. I was in our old Durango shop, jamming on my Renaissance RS6, plugged into an AER Compact 60 with a regular Planet Waves cable. On a whim, I switched to the Kordex, and that was the moment I realized just how much difference a cable makes. It was as if I was playing an entirely different guitar. And that was just with an inexpensive (but very well-made) guitar cable.

Thus began my quest to find the absolute best cable out there. And I have indeed found what I take to be the two best instrument cables being made anywhere: Zaolla and Evidence Audio. I concede that both these cables probably cost quite a bit more than the cables you've been using for years. But the transparent, wide open tone you'll experience is, I believe, more than worth the price difference.

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Evidence Audio Cables		Zaolla Cables

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