Topic: CAT-5 speaker cable DIY page

[Nick's Picks]

not sure if this page has been posted before, but its worth the read.
http://www.venhaus1.com/diycatfivecables.html

[Nick Culbreth]

great cables, i highly recommend them.


edited for spelling.

[jpschust]

it's certainly the way to go for a audiophile on a tight budget. 

[Nick's Picks]

so then you guys have made them ?

[jpschust]

i have not made my own set, but i have listened to 2 different pairs of them and they are decent cables for being on a budget

[Daryan]

I have been in the process of making mine for about three weeks off and on.  I really hope they sound great, as I have about 20 hours in them to date!

Daryan

[jpschust]

how has it taken you 20 hrs to make these?  i watched a friend make one speaker's worth in about an hour or so.  the braiding takes the longest time out of all of it...

[Nick Culbreth]

how has it taken you 20 hrs to make these?  i watched a friend make one speaker's worth in about an hour or so.  the braiding takes the longest time out of all of it...

i think you may be thinking about another type of cat-5 cable because the ven haus recipe calls for 13 braids per cable and takes forever to make.  i spent around 30 hours on my 8 ft. pair of cables and i just don't think it's possible that your friend could make one cable in an hour.

I have been in the process of making mine for about three weeks off and on.  I really hope they sound great, as I have about 20 hours in them to date!

Daryan

i'm really happy with mine, i think they sound great.  i've had a chance to compare them with a pair of mit terminators (thanks trey) and they were significantly better in every respect, the bass was extended a bit and more refined, the midrange was a bit clearer and the highs seemed less bright and more natural.  they were definately worth all the time i put into making them.

[jpschust]

he just flew through making it, sounded good too.  it may not have been the ven haus specific style, but it was certainly a braided cat 5 speaker cable

[Daryan]

The one I am in the process of making, I bought about 150 feet, though I haven't used it all, and had to strip the blue plastic stuff off of the outside which revealed 4 twisted pairs of wires.  I then have to untwist those, and braid them into strands of three.  Once I have about umm, it feels like fourty but I am in Maryland at the moment and can't say exactly, I further braid three already braided units together.  Once that is done, I braid three of those and finally I think I get to terminate, cut them down, and see what they sound like.  I am completed stage one, the three strand braids and hope to be finished with stage two tomorrow evening after work.  Mine are about 10 feet fwiw, though I would like to get a 15 feet pair for the surrounds done at some point as well.

Daryan

[Nick's Picks]

he just flew through making it, sounded good too.  it may not have been the ven haus specific style, but it was certainly a braided cat 5 speaker cable

look at the picture at the link I posted.
no way is anyone making that in an hour.  must be making something else ? a different design i'd bet.

[Daryan]

Nick, there is another design I have seen somewhere where you just braid three cat 5 cables, unaltered, strip them and twist.  This must be the aforementioned variety!

Daryan

[Nick Culbreth]

here is another recipe, i've tried this one as well and they don't sound quite as nice but they're not nearly as labor intensive.

http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/triple_t_e.html

[jpschust]

thats the version i was thinking of.

[macdaddy]

here is another recipe, i've tried this one as well and they don't sound quite as nice but they're not nearly as labor intensive.

http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/triple_t_e.html

+t

beat me to it...

i dig that tnt site...