Cable Asylum

Posted by Lukasz F. on June 03, 2000 at 07:00:26:

I took time to experiment with both cables.
I admit that Cat5 was not teflon insulated, just Poliolefin. Jons coax was exactly belden 89259.

Without going into details, cat 5 proved to be favorite among all who tried them. Very clean, fast, open, with excellent bass depth and slam.

Belden coax - it is an OK cable, but nobody really liked it very much.
I gave both cables to 4 different audiophiles, to compare them to anything they owned. They all said the same comment - belden was OK, but nothing special, not enough open on top, not too good in the bass. Midrange was about as good as they wished, but cat was preferred in every case.

Also my own evaluation did not differ much. They were far away from my superb hi-end cables, but CAT was the one I could live with, not belden.

Now I am wondering what difference teflon would make.

I cut the belden and used it for amplifier internal signal wiring with great results. Recommended for that purpose, and cheap IC cables.

Lukasz

Follow Ups:

• Re: I built CAt5 and Jon's Belden speaker cables Rod M 14:38:42 06/03/00 (0)
• Re: I built CAt5 and Jon's Belden speaker cables Jon Risch 10:23:34 06/03/00 (1)
  • Re: I built CAt5 and Jon's Belden speaker cables Lukasz F. 13:49:24 06/03/00 (0)