haha.... i'm from both worlds personally...
I've been an audio enthusiast for years, even own an "audiophile" grade amplifier. (Rotel)...
continuing into off-topic here big time...
I had to try the home-brew CAT5 wires for myself. (for those of you who don't know what i'm talking about- you take a bunch of strands of networking cable and braid it all together to make a high-capacitance, low-inductance speaker cable that is "supposedly" really good...)
So I bought 500 feet of CAT5 for like $20 and some gold plated bananas from RadioScrap and got busy.. stripping, cutting, braiding. Took me and a friend all day to make a pair of 8 foot cables.
My amplifier refuses them- idunno what I did wrong, or if my particular amp is just very sensative to highly capacitive loads or something- but it goes into protection mode whenever I hook them up.. They work fine on my cheapo denon amp. On that amp- they sound better than 18 guage braided copper, but not by enough to go through all the hastle, lol..
oh well, between hunting for german castrol and braiding network cable to make ultimate speaker wire, I think I qualify, as an audiooilphiool!!!