Quote Originally Posted by AltecLansingFan View Post
Nice weekend job for people who are skeptical about what cables can do.

Take an old interconnect,
Put off the shielding,
Connect them untwisted,
Listen careful to your system,
After that connect them a little tight twisted,
Listen again to your system,
If you can hear the difference between twisted and untwisted your ears are OK,
If you don't hear any difference at all, call a doctor!



Have a fine weekend!
Shielding can make a difference in the amount of induced noise, especially in high RF and EMI environments. No one will contest that.

Barring taking on coursework in physics, maths, DC and finally AC circuit analysis, have a look online at the following: resistance, inductive and capacitive reactance. Also consider RLC using your system components' input and output impedances within the eleven octave frequency range of human hearing.

You'll note that specialist `boutique' line-level and speaker cable geometry, material and construction have no absolutely no relevance at audio frequency. At megahertz and gigahertz certainly but at or below 20 khz, definitely not.

BobR