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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you're an old geezer like me, the idea of using unshielded cable to run audio is still a ...

The Brilliance CatSnake Cat. 6e audio/video cables are designed for use in patching Ethernet or other Cat. 5e digital audio/video formats. The UTP cables are AES/EBU-compliant and use the company’s ...

Coaxial cable: Coax is good for short wire runs in low-noise environments. Its thick copper construction yields low signal losses. As an unbalanced transmission-line, its interference immunity is poor ...

This article was updated March 31, 2023. It was originally published Jan. 8, 2016. Engineers and designers who don’t regularly work with CAT data of cables, and even some that do, can get confused ...

The transmission medium is the physical vehicle that facilitates the transport of information. Guided transmission media use a solid medium (cable) for transmission. There are many cables, but the ...

Spoiler summary: It only takes -60 dB of mode conversion to fail an EMC compliance test if this common signal gets out on unshielded twisted pair cables. If a common mode choke is used, as much as -20 ...