Re: need help choosing between line level cables

Kevin McMurtrie wrote:

>  "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > "Eeyore" wrote...
> > > Richard Crowley wrote:
> > >> "toecheese"  wrote...
> > >
> > >> > Good to know, I'll see first if I get a hum and if so
> > >> > I'll try the transformer.
> > >> >
> > >> > using CAT5 sounds interesting, but does that give
> > >> > me a stereo pair or would I need two separate CAT5
> > >> > cables?  As it is the Belden stereo cable is only about
> > >> > $25 for the 60 foot run I need.
> > >>
> > >> You actually get four pair in a Cat5 cable.
> > >> The advantage of Cat5 is that you can run
> > >> video (and even computer network !) over
> > >> it.  The audio cable is pretty much a one-
> > >> trick pony.
> > >>
> > >> 75 ft of Cat5 is $11 at my local shop.
> > >> Complete with connectors already installed.
> > >
> > > And a couple of good audio transformers is probably ~ $200 !
> >
> > And I'd bet that he will need transformers (of whatever
> > grade) regardless of what kind of cable he uses.
> > Running 65 feet of cable between pieces of
> > consumer audio equipment in different rooms
> > is a standard setup for hum and similar problems.
> >
> > Perhaps you missed my reference to a $35 solution.
>
> $15 for Cat6 and $20 left over for balancing transformers?  I don't
> think that would work well.
>
> He gave links to balanced wiring.  Balanced audio allows for a bit of a
> grounding mismatch between equipment.

Errr ... that's not actually quite the intention per se but it would cope
with that.


> If his equipment sup****ts it, balanced wiring is by far the cheapest and
> highest quality way to do
> this.

Balanced wiring only gives you an advantage if the equipment is balanced.
With clever wiring it's only actually necessary for either the 'sending'
or
'receiving' equipment to have a balanced input or ouput but you need to
know what you're doing in this case.

Graham