Has anyone tried making this Cat-5 speaker cable? I am interested in everyone's opinion.

http://www.venhaus1.com/diycatfivecables.html

I can't give any first hand opinion however I have a collegue at work that swears by his self made Cat-5 cables. He did mention that he cut his hands up pretty good braiding the wires. Too much work for my tastes.

I've built it and tried it and switched back to 12ga monster cable.

It took me about a week for an 8ft braider length (two weeks total for the complete project.) I tried it in my system for a good two weeks and decided that the 12GA sounded better...which was a huge dissapointment given the amount of time I spent on it.

However...I've heard a number of people who've built it swear by it. Maybe it's just my gear...I don't know.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents on the issue.

Jason

I suspect that after spending such effort to make cable by hand few people will admit that it didn't work. That gives more weight to fmcorps's input in my opinion.

I made the cables for front and center about 3 years ago. As one of the above posters mentioned it was very time consuming and rough on the fingers (i had blisters for a week!!)

Did they sound better? Yes, of course I was replacing cheap lamp cord.

Would I do it again? No, as a matter of fact I recently replaced them when I upgraded my system (950/770, Rocket Speakers).

I found some very reasonable cable from a company called Canare, which was originally intended for microphones (i think??) Anyway, a couple of other groups I read swore by it. I have been very pleased as well.

tx_outlaw - Do you have more specifics on the Canare cable you used or perhaps a link describing the method? Did you order the cable directly from Canare?

Tom

Canare is a well known manufacturer of cables and connectors etc for the pro audio/video industries. Their stuff is widely used to wire up movie dubbing stages and recording studios. I use their RCA plugs extensively - they're very good and reasonably priced. If you do a search on the web, you'll get to them.

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Canare is a well known manufacturer of cables and connectors etc for the pro audio/video industries. Their stuff is widely used to wire up movie dubbing stages and recording studios. I use their RCA plugs extensively - they're very good and reasonably priced.

I'm very familar with Canare and have several of their cables, but use them as interconnects. I was wondering which of the Canare cables people are using for speaker wire.

Tom

4S8 & 4S11.

S.