What do you think of the DIY Cat 5 speaker cables

I braided up a pair of biwire Cat5's...BIG improvement over what I had, though admittedly I was starting from a pretty basic cable. When I first tried them out I sat back with a "whoa, what's this". Until then I didn't put much stock in the cable craze...now I'm a bit more 'open minded'.

I run a McCormack DNA-1 & no issues with the capacitance. I asked Steve M about the DNA-1 stability with highly capacitive loads...he said "if there's a problem you'll know right away"...something about a blood-curdling howl....there wasn't & it didn't.

I also recent spun up eight of VH's silver IC's(various systems)..VERY VERY NICE.
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There are some good speaker cables already out there. Try them.

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.