HOSA Cables are one of the most trusted brands in the music industry, known worldwide for their robust, stage-ready design, world-class sound and iconic red packaging.
HOSA cables offer everything you need to connect all the bits and pieces on the stage and in the studio. Colour-coded snakes, gold termination points on cables, robust connectors to be relied on time after time, HOSA have their ear to the ground of both the professional and the amateur music maker. They have something for every budget and every space.
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Long analogue looms with different termination types, stages boxes and audio accessories, as well as digital solutions like digital cables, data and video cables & more make HOSA a trusted brand. Their products shift from good to better to best with their Essential, PRO and EDGE ranges respectively, offering different types of cabling, isolation and connection depending on your needs and budget.
HOSA was founded by the late Sho Sato in 1984, who started small and built HOSA into one of the most trusted names in the industry. A strong work ethic and passion for people pushed HOSA into the limelight, providing great service as well as some of the best cables around. Beginning by cold-calling retail customers, Sato would travel around to take orders, before returning to his humble workshop and building the cables himself. His daughter, Mayumi Allison, took over the company and continues to expand with one goal in mind: reliable solutions, passion and incredible service above all.
The Essential range offers a huge slew of products for different types of connection. From traditional (and most commonly used) cables like microphone, guitar cables and speaker cables. The range extends to more professional interconnects for interfacing and connecting various pieces of equipment together, as well as inserting equipment into consoles, audio interfaces and more. Featuring just about every termination type you could need, from XLR to bantam, RCA to both balanced and unbalanced ¼”, banana plugs, adapters and even wireless Bluetooth solutions, the Essential range helps audio move seamlessly from A to B.
Levelling up to the PRO Series, the range features many of the same products, bolstered by REAN connectors at either end. REAN’s range of connection types expands on HOSA’s world-class cabling, adding robust XLR connection, TRS and TS for balanced and unbalanced connection. The PRO Series adds breakout cables and headphone extension to the range, showing that HOSA clearly understands the needs of the working professional.
The EDGE series pushes world-class sound to the fore with highly robust cabling built to totally isolate your signal from the outside world as it sends and receives sound. Offering microphone, instrument and speaker cables, the EDGE series boasts 20 AWG copper for signal, wrapped in polyethylene, PVC, cotton and oxygen-free copper braid to serve as a ground, and ensure no crosstalk from the labyrinth of cables that are required to run a stage or studio. The EDGE series features Neutrik connectors in either gold or nickel configurations, depending on your budget.
Beyond their range of cabling, HOSA also offer additional audio accessories like adapters, cable testers and cable care products, as well as the aforementioned Bluetooth option in the Drive Bluetooth Audio Interface. The Drive Bluetooth Audio Interface can serve as either a transmitter or a receiver, featuring a ⅛” stereo interconnect and a USB connection, it brings modern connectivity to analogue equipment such as a mixing console. Their range of Audio accessories speaks to their commitment to world-class service and care, offering protective A/V Work Gloves and face masks, as well as cable organisers, cable holders and cable cleaning, de-oxidisers and protection for their world-class products. Their Audio Cable Tester offers many different connection types, easily allowing you to audio on a variety of sources, as well as check their connectivity and continuity.
HOSA’s commitment to world-class sound is brought home by its expanding range of additional accessories. They provide solutions to ensure everything is patched, connected, routed and received properly, safely and securely, with a range of cables to suit every connection type and budget. Having arrived on the scene in the mid-80s with the advent of digital audio, HOSA’s range allows connectivity between old-world analogue mixing consoles and modern, cutting-edge digital equipment, with all types of connectors available, and additional adapters available too!
The company’s commitment to service brings us a company that provides solutions for problems we have, as well as the ones they know we’ll run into. Cables testers, Bluetooth adapters and cable care products have them committed to us in the long term, while also having a huge range of Essential, PRO and EDGE cables, adapters and connections for those connectivity issues that arise in the short-term. Best of all, they’re built to last gig after gig, no matter how many musicians and performers tangle them. Music is about connection above all, and while HOSA may not be able to help with the emotional end of that, they sure can help with the physical.
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