Cat 5 cable for audio?

Natalie, two questions for you regarding cables:

1) Since you've commented that you liked Listener magazine as a general rule and do not like Nordost products, what did you think of Editor Art Dudley drooling all over Nordost products in his review of them ?

2) What design / geometry of Cat 5 cables do you prefer over Chris' 27 pair design ? Is there some place on the net that has these for sale or tells one how to make them ?

Sean
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He wrote one puff piece. Felt so awfull for selling out to the Cable Barones that he quit rather than publish rubish.

As for the wire. No ,its just after building many pairs with different condctor counts that the 16 pair allways sounded the best. Chris design is good but overkill.

I don't think that Art "quit" the magazine. Not anymore so than someone running into you full steam, knocking you over and then explaining that you "fell down". I used that analogy as i think that such a situation is what it felt like to Art i.e. he was probably both bowled over and unaware that such an event was going to take place right then and there.

Personally, i've built a few sets of Cat 5 cables. 12 pair versions ( 24 conductors ) sound fast and lean. 27 pair ( Chris' design ) sounds very powerful on the bottom end. I think that somewhere in between those two figures probably offers a good balance. The cool thing about this design is that one can literally pick and choose what tonal balance they want by adding / subtracting conductors.

I do have one question for you though: How did you evenly braid 16 pairs of wires ? One can't do that and have an even amount of conductors in each bundle. Sean
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8 pairs per side.