A friend of mine full-time broadcast engineering told me he can detect zero crosstalk between pairs within the same CAT 5 cable at line level. As you suspect, balance is very important.
Laryn K8TVZ --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "JOHN MACKEY" <jmac...@...> wrote: > > Using balanced audio in a broadcast environment, I have on rare occasions > experienced issues with cross-talk between long runs of un-shielded balanced > audio lines. (inductive pickup??) I always wondered if the wires were truly > balanced when that happened. > > I prefer to used shielded balanced wiring for long runs.
