Oldradiohand

Thanks all. Think I'll bite the bullet and swap out an XLR with an Ethercon.

 

Gary, would have thought with all that extensive film and TV production knowledge (by the way... your signature says "15 mins" - it's more than 15 minutes right?) you'd know that balanced line level audio travels an extremely long way with no issues. Cat5 cable has a very good, tight twist on the pairs, so as long as you wire correctly then you'll maintain the common mode noise rejection.

 

Cheers :)

 

David

 

About 80 miles to be precise.http://www.blue-room.org.uk/public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif That's the distance of the unrepeatered reserve circuit from London to Daventry that the BBC used to use. Only equalised up to 5kHz for shortwave but still bloody impressive.

Nowt wrong with bell wire. Twisted pair balanced line audio circuits will go miles along the same cable without interfering and cat5/6 cable is not too dissimilar to old fashioned multipair audio cable. Just keep the send/return balance good, transformers are probably the best to use here.