I am very OCD and love my cables to be tidy lol!...well I dont love untangling cables for 20 minutes in front of an audience of 50 people watching me at my gigs!! Nice elastic ties... and very fast to use! The elastic tie is sometimes a little too long on 1.5m cables, so it comes undone but great for longer cables...unless you wind up the short cable into a smaller loop, but this can make the cables very twisty when you untie them! The Plastic clip will only fit around a standard audio jack cable size & power lead (kettle lead). For speakon cables, power cable extensions etc they are little small...unless you squeeze them really hard! I still use velcro ties too for the fatter and thinner cables but these things are great to use, and I am happy with them and the great design!. I am unsure of the life of the elastic, as it might start to deteriorate after a year or so, but if you have bunches of 3m similar thickness cables,,, then these are the ties for you!...wow long review for such a small item!!