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RE: Chinese power cable: wow!

Conductive shielding makes an impact on the sound, which is why many listeners come to prefer unshielded cables of any kind, other than those that must return the signal such as an S/PDIF digital cable.

The notion that a shield is somehow not involved in how a cable sounds, other than the potential of a lowered noise floor is misunderstood. There are other ways to mitigate noise that don't involve any metal shielding, and most listening environments don't involve obvious noise issues that require heavy-handed shielding anyway.

A perfect example is a balanced differential signal that is transmitted and received by circuits that work just fine to mitigate noise, without a real need of shielding in many cases. Even an unbalanced, unshielded twisted pair serves well without a shield to protect it from noise in most listening environments.

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