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Post by Hexspa on Jun 20, 2020 17:26:00 GMT
I'm reading The Audio Expert and on p.117, Ethan mentions CAT5 as a digital connection. Maybe it'll be news for some of you that Cranborne Audio uses CAT5 as an audio connection.
Thanks.
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Post by rock on Jun 20, 2020 17:56:38 GMT
So I know Cat5 is 4 twisted pair non-shielded and works fine for ethernet and is used quite a bit in pro audio setups. In many of the churches I work at, I notice they use digital stage boxes to convert analog mic and line signals to digital ethernet (like?) and send it via cat5 to the FOH console. They also use the cat5 to send individual signals back to mini/personal stage mixers www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=wm4Et-qtVpY&feature=emb_logo for IEM or headphone monitoring. For analog audio, I'm pretty sure using cat5 without shielding would pick up hum and have crosstalk between channels but who know what they'll come up with next? I looked and the site and it was not clear to me exactly what cranborne is doing with their electronics but I'd have to bet it's a digital signal they are sending via cat5. If not and they are actually sending analog audio, I'd love to know how. |
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Post by rock on Jun 21, 2020 1:07:29 GMT
OK, I dug around the site a little more and YES it is analog, sorry for doubting you Hex, my bad  . BUT, they do mention using "Shielded Cat5". So that should work fine and the circuitry should be basically the same as any balanced driver/receiver system. |
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Post by Hexspa on Jun 21, 2020 1:11:30 GMT
I have no idea other than that they do it.
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Post by stefan on Feb 14, 2021 18:40:52 GMT
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Post by Hexspa on Feb 16, 2021 13:41:12 GMT
Good find, stefan. Here's a reddit thread on analog over Cat 5:
https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/bvtmo6/recording_audio_over_cat5e/
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Post by stefan on Feb 17, 2021 15:40:31 GMT
thank you very much!
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Post by stefan on Feb 26, 2021 8:14:19 GMT
So...in the meantime, i could test a radial mini. We did a lot of tests against a conventional xlr wireing in our studio. And we got satisfiing restuts. There was no noticeable difference in audio-quality to the xlr analog wireing. We tested on vocals, guitar and drums. Very pleasing! We also send the headphone mix back over the same CAT cable and crosstalk was no problem. Really great option to connect our liveroom with our mixing room. So we will go for this system: www.camtec-online.de/audio/digicat/digicat4rack2083pm-digicat4rack-208-3p.-male?c=12 |
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. BUT, they do mention using "Shielded Cat5". So that should work fine and the circuitry should be basically the same as any balanced driver/receiver system.
