DIY cat 6 FEP "TEFLON"

You might try using one half of each twisted pair for the hot signal and the other half for the ground. This will increase capacitance a bit but it will lower inductance, which is the real problem at these currents and impedances.

Note that a tighter twist means more copper in series with the speaker, not more copper in thickness. This will increase the series resistance a tad, which will not be a problem if you are using all 27 pairs. The best benefit of the tighter twist is less inductance, which is a very big plus.

Don't worry about time smear; you can measure this and you will need to have 100 feet of speaker cable to have 1/4 inch of time smear. With the twisted pairs you are using, I doubt you would even have that.

Hi, Sorry I was not detailed enough in my post, but I did split each brown pair. Solid brown for hot + and white brown for ground -. BTW using one color makes for a nicer looking speaker cable IMO than the very busy looking multi colored standard. But I am glade to hear that there would not be any time smear issues even if I made them the normal way. The cat 6 speaker cables came out very nice if I do say so myself, and what they add to musical enjoyment was worth the extra effort. Thanks for your helpful tips and info.

JeAudio: You certainly put some serious effort into this! I am glad you had good results.

A couple of questions for you: Did you have any amplifier problems driving the capacitive load? Did you build a Zorbel network on one or both ends? and, Is your amplifier a tube unit with a transformer output stage or a solid state unit?

Thanks!