Unshielded Twisted Pair RCA Wire?

[katodevin 10+ year member]

I was wondering what reccomendations you guys had for UTP RCA wires. I seem to be having a lot of RCA induced noise into my system. Going to some monster cable helped, but I'm still getting a tiny ringing sound. I know that UTP is recommended for eliminating car type incuded noise, just don't know any good brands of UTP cables.

I was also wondering if they came in 4 channel configurations.

Thanks!

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[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

Cheap, effective UTP's -- Ebay, stinger hypers, and yes, they're available in 4 ch.

The XNL Pro's (also by monster) are the crowning jewel of UTP interconnect technology IMO. Looks like they're running $65-70 for a 16' 4 ch.

 

[katodevin 10+ year member]

The XNL Pro's (also by monster) are the crowning jewel of UTP interconnect technology IMO. Looks like they're running $65-70 for a 16' 4 ch.

Thank you very much for your input.

As for the XNL Pro's. Are those the 400 series of cables that monster offers? From what I see on their website, i see XNL XTREME models. I guess XTREMEM sounds better than pro. Just wanted to make sure that we were talking about the same cable. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Thanks very much.

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

I believe it would only be the XLN Pro's

You can search for them on ebay using "XLN Pro"

They were released several years ago. In the original contract the engineer that designed them had to approve them before Monster could market them using his name.

I believe they were only approved the 1st year. After that Monster fancied them up with some marketing techno crap and they no longer met the engineer's specs.

And as far as I know that's where the stuff they're selling today remains (marketed-up techo crap).