In Reply to: RE: Best IC's for vintage RCA jacks posted by manerac on September 16, 2014 at 10:41:07:
A very common way of setting interconnect cables up is to ground the shield at the upstream end only. The 2 wires are used to carry signal. The shield "dumps" noise into the chassis of the upstream component, but does not carry info.
Eli D.
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- RE: Best IC's for vintage RCA jacks - Eli Duttman 11:49:08 09/16/14 (7)
- And this explains why some ICs come with directional arrows printed on the jacket? NT - sleeper 18:51:23 09/17/14 (1)
- Yes. (nt) - Eli Duttman 19:30:48 09/17/14 (0)
- RE: Best IC's for vintage RCA jacks - sleeper 19:00:30 09/16/14 (4)
- RE: Best IC's for vintage RCA jacks - Eli Duttman 19:25:43 09/16/14 (3)
- RE: Best IC's for vintage RCA jacks - Crazy Dave 08:06:22 09/17/14 (2)
- RE: Best IC's for vintage RCA jacks - Eli Duttman 10:25:40 09/17/14 (1)
- RE: Best IC's for vintage RCA jacks - Crazy Dave 09:51:25 09/19/14 (0)