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RE: Ordered some..will see (nt)

Dear Jon.

I have made the starquad myself. The measurements on the JSSG 360 tweak shows no improvement. I have read also a paper on ASR about this subject (and the explanation of John Swenson himself). The ASR folks could not find a plausible explanation or effect of the self shielding. But, maybe they are measuring the wrong parameter. My hypothesis is that residual AC on the DC line (through parasitic capacitance, inducing a voltage and causing leakage current) is being shunted by the self shielding braid, and that picked up/sent out RFI is shunted also (reduced antenna effect). Maybe the tweak is beneficial for other cables/the cable salad behind my rack (less noise pick up) and is the performance gain more indirect.

I have investigated this tweak with multiple cables (DC, USB, interconnects, ethernet) and there is always a reduced noise floor in my system (bigger & tighter bass, blacker background, more air/halo's around individual elements in the mix) when I applied this tweak. I am not an advocate of shielding everything because it can choke the sound. I just experiment back and forth until I am happy.

With kind regards, Judith

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