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Have you heard of Faraday?

Given that most amplifiers have their input terminals close to their output terminals, the mutual inductance of speaker and interconnect cables may create a significant extra global feedback path. The magnitude and sign of the net feedback depends on internal cable geometries as well as how they are dressed in the audio system (and may be enhanced by such things as steel rack frames, etc., or suppressed by low amplifier input impedance). The amplifier response to this feedback depends on the details of the amplifier circuit.

Jon's statement represents the experience of many audio enthusiasts. I believe your statement leaves out an important variable in the category of "one-meter interconnect cables." Even if they have similar resistance and self-inductance, variations in design geometry will cause variations in mutual inductance in particular systems, and results in one system would not predict results in another.


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