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Mike Rivers

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In article kuqkd.141819$9b.40203@edtnps84 writes:

Looking at just wiring (since that's all that's relevant to this
discussion):

- a ten foot line from each patchbay jack to a corresponding point on a
piece of gear in the rack or the mixer. Doesn't sound like very much
wire until you do the math -- 48 x 4, x ten feet each. Almost half a
mile of wire just for a simple little rig! I had planned to use name
brand cable (I've always used Mogami in the past) but this time opted
for generic simply based on price. Two boxes of 1000 feet each was
$200. Double that for name-brand.

Steve Lampen of Belden has been extolling the vitues of running
balanced line level signals through Cat5e or Cat6 UTP Ethernet cable.
If the balancing is good you can get away without a shield
(automatically eliminating ground loops) and the cable is really
cheap. We've been kicking around getting someone to manufacture DB25
adapters to two RJ45 jacks to run eight channels through two pieces of
UTP cable and connecting to things using the TASCAM/etc. DB25 wiring
standard.

I guess it takes guts to wire an audio installation without shielded
cable the first time, but if it works, that's a confidence-builder.

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