[svlug] re: Cat-5 Cable Test

Bill bill at wiliweld.com
Mon Feb 24 12:25:34 PST 2003


At Mon, 24 Feb 2003 it looks like Aaron T Porter composed:

> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:09:51AM -0800, Bill wrote:
> > I have a 1000' spool of Cat5 and was wondering if it could be used for
> > a 50' speaker run under a floor (crawl-space) of a home.
> 
> 	Sure, and depending on how crazy you want to get, you can hit
> audiphile quality:
> 
> http://www.venhaus1.com/diycatfivecables.html
> 

Now that had some unexpected information on it....

In just powering two home speakers, should I run two lengths of cat5,
one for each channel and then "braid" all the ends of each?  Is that
what your saying?

The site you referred to has some "high-end" sound in mind, I'm just
tying to utilized the 1000' spool of wire I have to see if I can put
sound into a room that is actually about thirty ( 30' ) from the stereo.


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