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Posted by Jon Risch (i) on July 22, 2000 at 15:30:02:

In Reply to: ...indoor telephone wire as speaker wire? posted by eldragon on July 22, 2000 at 09:18:17:

This has little to recommend it. Abouyt the only thing it would ahve going for it, would be multiple individually insualted wires. The insualtion is the cheapest PVC on the planet, and the copper is as cheap as it gets too.

The CAT5 recipe uses plenum grade cable, which has FEP teflon insultion for the wire pairs, the wires are twisted pairs, which helps redcue inductance, and the copper is of a known quality grade.

See:
http://members.xoom.com/Jon_Risch/s1.htm
http://members.xoom.com/Jon_Risch/i1.htm
and
http://www.geocities.com/venhaus1/diycatfivecables.html

Jon Risch