What do you think of the DIY Cat 5 speaker cables

Thanks fishboat I am interested in answers from people who have used them not from someone that doesnt have a clue.

The only real test is to give them a try. The price of admission is reasonable. Until someone..anyone..can offer a physical explanation of how/why different cables do what they do & how this relates the changes in the sound of a system then, by definition, any option is fair game.

Granted there are some cables & geometry that are off limits, but the group of those that are inside the 'useable' framework is huge.

Of course there's always the option of some company using Cat 5 (or other DIY material), dressing it up beyond all recognition, charging a beyond-healthy sum for it, and calling it a critical, cutting-edge audiophile design. In this case the Cat 5-roots would then become one of the good cables already available to try.
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Its not the price of the cables its the time making them. It looks like it would take a long time to make them which is not a problem if they are good cables. It seems a lot of people on this site think the HD 14 gage zip cord is as good as anything. If that is right a lot of people are getting ripped off.

Hey Joe!
If you make'm, I'd like to hear'em when you come this way.
Compare them to the 8tc's.
Good Listening!

I made them. I made the full 27 pair with the recommended Belden Teflon-insulated 24ga wire. Mine were only 5 feet long, but it's still bloody hard work.

If I had to do it again, I'd only use one pair of the 4 pairs inside the Cat 5 cable (each pair is a different colour and has a different twist rate for noise rejection).

I caution you NOT to braid them too tight - it's much harder and you can easily get a short. Loose is better.

Use the best spades you can find - I used Kimber Postmasters - because you have to get 27 copper wires in there, and it's not easy with cheap spades.

Don't use any covering over the braid.

They take quite a while to break in, but they were stable in my system and sounded very nice.

They are quite a challenge to build but one does feel some degree of success at the end that far exceeds going to a store and buying something.

I eventually replaced the Cat 5s with hand-made silver foil cables.

Regards,