I'll give the CAT5 speaker cables a try as soon as a can get hold of some good quality cable.

I don't want to use the plain white jacketed stuff. Somewhere I saw some purple CAT5 cable that had NASA grade or NASA approved written on it. If I can find some of that, then I can have some NASA grade speaker cables.

I have electrostatic speakers (Acoustat 2+2s up front, 1+1s in the back) which have extremely low impedance (capacitive) above 10kHz and so the low inductance of the braided CAT5 cables may give some sonic benefit.

In the case of the 2+2s, my modifications include seperate inputs for the LF and the HF transformers, so I can further experiment with CAT5 type cables on one or both of the inputs.

Anybody have a recommendation on what would be the best terminaton for these CAT5 cables?

Paul

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[This message has been edited by Paul J. Stiles (edited January 01, 2003).]