Analysis Plus Black Mesh Oval 9 Bi-Wire Speaker Cable - 8 Foot - Banana to Banana - Pair

Analysis Plus Black Mesh Oval 9 Bi-Wire Speaker Cable - 8 Foot - Banana to Banana - Pair

What It Does in Your System

The Cable That Built This Company's Reputation, Split Two Ways

Oval 9 is the design that made Analysis Plus a name in audio — well enough regarded that reviewers kept remarking on how little it costs relative to what it does. Black Mesh Oval 9 is the current version, same engineering under an attractive black mesh jacket.

This listing is the Bi-Oval 9: a four-conductor bi-wire configuration in a matched 8-foot pair, terminated with bananas at both ends. Your speaker's bass and treble binding posts each get their own conductor pair, from a single connection at the amplifier.

Hollow Oval Geometry That Keeps Resistance Flat Across the Band

Analysis Plus is an engineering firm first — the Michigan company earned its name modeling and testing cables for other manufacturers before deciding it could do better itself. Their simulations showed that round conductors suffer badly from current bunching and skin effect, so they developed a patented hollow oval cross-section instead.

A woven pattern places every wire statistically as close to the return current as every other wire. Current density stays even, resistance barely changes with frequency, and you hear a cable that stays consistent from the bottom of the bass to the top of the treble.

Nine Gauge of Copper Where the Bass Actually Needs It

This is a substantial cable — 9 AWG of high-purity oxygen-free copper, built to hold onto deep bass notes played at high volume without losing grip. Analysis Plus points it specifically at lower-sensitivity speakers, longer runs, and higher listening levels.

Bi-wiring compounds the advantage. Separating the conductors at the speaker end takes the large magnetic fields associated with bass energy out of the path carrying the more delicate treble signal, so the two aren't competing in the same cable.

Is This Right for You?

A few things to confirm before ordering:

• Your speakers have two sets of binding posts. Bi-wiring only works when the speaker gives separate access to its high-pass and low-pass crossover sections. If yours have a single pair of posts, the standard Black Mesh Oval 9 is what you want — this configuration won't connect properly.
• You're removing the factory jumpers. Bi-wireable speakers ship with metal straps linking the two post pairs. Those come off when you bi-wire, or the separation you paid for doesn't happen.
• Eight feet suits a conventional layout. Right for speakers flanking a rack at normal spacing. Measure the actual routing path before ordering — Analysis Plus also builds this in 4, 6, 10, and 12 foot lengths.

Setup & Installation

At the amplifier, the conductors are joined to a common connection, so it attaches like an ordinary full-range cable — positive to positive, negative to negative. At the speaker, remove the factory jumper straps first, then connect one positive and one negative to the treble posts and one positive and one negative to the bass posts. Bananas seat with a firm push and hold by spring tension, no tools required. Get polarity right at every connection and wire both channels identically.

The cable measures roughly 20mm by 8mm in cross-section, so it's a wide flat oval rather than a round bundle. That profile lies neatly along a baseboard, but 9-gauge conductors don't like tight turns — give the cable a generous radius behind the rack and where it splits toward the speaker terminals.

Features & Specifications

Patented Hollow Oval Geometry
Minimizes current bunching and skin effect so resistance stays nearly constant across the audio band.

Woven Braided Conductor
Every wire sits statistically as close to the return current as every other, distributing current density evenly for better signal transfer than solid-conductor designs.

9-Gauge Oxygen-Free Copper
A massive conductor built to convey deep bass at high volume, especially with lower-sensitivity speakers.

Four-Conductor Bi-Wire Configuration
Separate conductor pairs for the bass and treble sections of your speaker's crossover, from a single amplifier connection.

Specifications

• Type: Bi-wire speaker cable, matched pair
• Length: 8 feet
• Terminations: Banana connectors, both ends
• Conductor gauge: 9 AWG
• Conductor material: High-purity oxygen-free copper
• Configuration: Four conductor, hollow oval geometry in oval-coaxial arrangement
• Outer dimensions: 20mm x 8mm
• Jacket: Black mesh
• Included: One matched pair of terminated bi-wire speaker cables

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a pair or a single cable?
This is a matched pair — two 8-foot bi-wire cables, one per speaker. Everything you need to bi-wire a stereo system is included.

Can I use this if my speakers only have one set of binding posts?
No. The speaker end is configured for two separate post pairs. If your speakers have a single pair, order the standard Black Mesh Oval 9 instead — give us a call and we'll get you the right version.

What's the difference between bi-wiring and bi-amping?
Bi-wiring runs separate conductors from one amplifier to your speaker's bass and treble inputs, keeping the large magnetic fields around the bass signal away from the treble conductors. Bi-amping uses two separate amplifier channels per speaker and requires a different cable configuration entirely.

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