Cat 5 cable for audio?


Has anyone tried using shielded Cat 5 cable in an audio application? I am thinking about using short (12 inches or less) runs of Cat 5 as jumpers between the XO and panels of my Magnepan MGIIIa. Given the bandwidth capabilities of certified Cat 5....
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Sean remidial math is availble or anal retentive coures also are available at your loval community college.
I replaced AudioQuest Midnights with Cat 5.I used 4 runs of it 2 pos 2 neg. I use it in MY HT set up.
Economy of Scale. If I where to sell this CAT 5 Commercially, it would sell for over 300.00 Very labour intensive to make and I used Cardas Spades.

If you are a DIY and have 5/10 hours to kill go for it.

Single runs are better than average cables but if you double up twist them shrink wrap and use good connectors they are very good..
Plenum grade as a Minimum.
Chris's design is not as effective as a 16 Pair design.
Chris design is not the measure by which CAT 5 should be judged. Just my 2 cents.
He wrote one puff piece. Felt so awfull for selling out to the Cable Barones that he quit rather than publish rubish.
As for the wire. No ,its just after building many pairs with different condctor counts that the 16 pair allways sounded the best. Chris design is good but overkill.