Pro Co Sound 200-Feet 4p Shielded Ethercon Cat5e

okay so I'm here to talk about some shielded versus non shielded Ethercon or rj45 cable we've been getting a bunch of calls people hooking up sound tools cat box cat tails cat rack wall cat and the whole basis of the system is to use the eight wires for twisted pairs inside a standard rj45 or cat5e type cable and the system does rely on a shielded cable that ninth wire or the shield helps eliminate humming buzz but it also carries the ground part of phantom power and allows us to utilize these data cables as high quality audio cables with a shield or a common ground so how to tell if a cable is shielded first of all you can read the writing on the cable which I can't because it's too little for my eyes if it starts with an F which stands for foil or an S which stands for shielded it means that the cable itself has a shield inside if it starts with a u that's unshielded or it starts with