Unofficial Tex Murphy

I have a 75 ohm serial digital coax snake cable that i got for free from my brother in law. Also got a audio/video receiver and a 27 inch traditional television. Just using regular coax for the video signal, as my setup would be too complicated to use composite.

The cable i have is a Gepco International VS102000 HD 75 ohm serial digital coax snake 20AWG solid (in case you wanted to looked it up)

I don't have an hd tv but wanted to use this cable for my audio signals, cause it seems that the audio quality sounds a bit better than my regular composite cables.

Problem is that it doesn't reach to all my devices because of where they are located.
Each cable seems to be individually shielded with a gigantic rubber piece housing all the cables together.

Is this act as a shield as well? Is it dumb to cut the outer rubber piece so I can use the cables individually and have them reach to wherever I want to, or would it be best to leave it intact and keep it shielded? (that is.... if the rubber is actually shielding anything...)

Anymore info and help with this would be great....

The housing around the outside (the master jacket) does not appear to have any shielding qualities. In fact, the only real benefit of it is 2 things: it keeps the cables nice and neat, and it's UL rated (which means its safe for wall installations, for protection against the spread of fire).

Of course, there is always a placebo effect things like this can have on you, so if you are concerned, just try it out for yourself and see how you go. If you are worries you can always buy some more master jacket and put it around the new channels you have created in your wire.

Hope this helps!

-Cub. =o)

Thanks Cube.

When you moving to Cali btw?

lestat666 wrote:Thanks Cube.

When you moving to Cali btw?

Unfortunately later than I had first thought.... I wrote about it here:

http://www.unofficialtexmurphy.com/mess ... f=1&t=3021

-Cub. =o)

Sydney is definitely the place to be noticed if you live in Australia.

You know, with the Hobbit getting ready to go into production within the little bit, it would definitely be an employment opportunity.

Well, I put a CD in a CD thingy and hear music. Great, eh?

Jim the old guy wrote:Well, I put a CD in a CD thingy and hear music. Great, eh?

...Jim, you never cease to brighten my day!

-Cub. =o)