Radial Engineering R800 8029 Catapult MINI RX Audio Snake

The Radial Catapult MINI RX is the receiver end of Radial Engineering's Cat 5 analog audio snake system. It takes four channels of balanced audio that have been sent from a Catapult MINI TX over a standard Cat 5 or Cat 6 cable and breaks them out to individual XLR connectors. The entire signal path remains analog — each audio channel rides on one of the twisted pairs inside the Ethernet cable — so there is no analog-to-digital conversion, no latency, and no sampling artifacts. The result is a cable solution that sounds identical to a traditional copper snake but weighs a fraction as much and costs far less to run over long distances.

Built in Radial's trademark steel chassis, the MINI RX is a passive device that requires no power supply, making it simple to deploy at the stage end, FOH position, or anywhere a permanent or semi-permanent audio tie line is needed. It is particularly popular for houses of worship, corporate AV installs, and small-to-mid-size live sound rigs where reducing cable clutter and setup time matters. For productions needing more than four channels, multiple Catapult MINI TX/RX pairs can be deployed side by side, each on its own Cat 5 home run.