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| Model: | Cat5 Speaker Cable |
| Category: | Cable |
| Suggested Retail Price: | materials cost about $45 |
| Description: | Braided Cat5 Network Cable |
| Manufacturer URL: | DIY by Chris VenHaus |
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Review by Craig Ewing on January 20, 2001 at 13:49:01 IP Address: 205.188.195.49 |
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I have been interested in "high end" cables for a long time, not one to spend big bucks on an unknown, and very much a "do it myselfer" I ordered 250' of CAT FIVE and started braiding. After several hours of work and not even 1/4 completed, I started to wonder if this was some kind of joke and was I a gullible dufus reeled in by someone at Radio Shack. I kept at it, thinking oh well, they'll look cool! My loving wife helped finish our set of 12' speaker cables and we sat down for a before/after with a track we have heard a hundred times (Stevie Ray Vaughan's Riviera Paradise). We promised each other we would be objective, and not convince ourselves it was better just because we had just spent approx. 20 hours of braiding. We didn't have to wait long . . . it was obvious in the first opening notes that a clear improvement could be heard (from 16ga Monster Cable,) we both looked at each other with amazed faces. Now as we listen to our collection of music, we still look at each other and marvel everytime we hear a note we haven't heard before . . . awesome . . .
| Product Weakness: | None really, if you don't want to make them just buy Kimber 8TC |
| Product Strengths: | Very noticeable improvment in sound quality |
| Associated Equipment for this Review: | |
| Amplifier: | Denon POA-2800 (200wpc) |
| Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): | Rotel RC-972 |
| Sources (CDP/Turntable): | Denon CD |
| Speakers: | Advent Model One's (yes 20 years old) |
| Cables/Interconnects: | N/A |
| Music Used (Genre/Selections): | Anything but Rap |
| Room Size (LxWxH): | 22' x 16' x 8' |
| Room Comments/Treatments: | none |
| Time Period/Length of Audition: | 2 weeks |
| Other (Power Conditioner etc.): | none |
| Type of Audition/Review: | Product Owner |
| Your System (if other than home audition): | N/A |
Follow Ups:
This WOVEN cable must be good, for the last 2 years I've been buying monster 16s speaker wire @ .50/ft.'in the econo class it's the best I've found. cheers Thor
(Stevie Ray Vaughan's Riviera Paradise).I love that one alot.
Char...
ja
Why would u spend 20 hours braiding speaker wire to connect to a really old pair of speakers? Maybe 20 hours spent finding new speakers would be 20 hours better spent. IMHO
P.S. This is not a flame. When ur speakers were designed they guessed at what they were doing. Now they KNOW what they are doing(some anyway).
Go tell that to peter Walker of Quad who designed the ESL 57 in 1957. I'm sure he was guessing when he designed arguably one of the greatest speakers of all time.
I got the chance to hear the Quads a couple of months ago playing Thelonius Monk through E.A.R., but I only got to hear it for a few minutes.It was a great few minutes : )
Much of the fun of doing a project is the money saved and the joy of accomplishing the task with the reward of a sound improvement. Who cares how old the speakers are if what was done improved the enjoyment of music.ja
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