Shopping for mic cables - four conductors, plus shield??

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CMR will only be reduced to that of normal cable, perhaps slightly better because of symmetrical wrap. More likely issue would be crosstalk, but for stereo pairs quite a lot of crosstalk can be tolerated before it becomes problematic. This is nothing compared to the horrendous crosstalk of phono carts that were accepted as SOTA.

JR
 
> use a single cable as a snake for a stereo pair

I run unbalanced stereo on normal 2+S mike-cable (Radio Shed's cheapest) with some CAT5 in the middle and two runs of clear speaker cable where it splits to spaced-mikes. Oh, and power flows through it.

Keep level high (20dB-40dB gain at mike), impedance moderate (~~39 source, 450 load), and don't measure separation. It sounds spooky-good.
 
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