^ dude, you don't know what you are talking about.

First of all the purpose of twisting signal wires is that any induced noise enters the conductors out of phase, and quite literally cancels itself out as the signal is summed at the amplifier... this only works if ground is either hot or floats and the difference between the conductors is taken....


Balanced and pseudo-balanced (differential) lines do not need to use a seperate reference ground either.. check out the balanced wires comming out of the ethernet card in the back of your computer, they run in pairs....

shielding is only effective at attenuating capacitively induced noise, and since it's rarley a problem I wouldn't worry about it... otherwise it acts as an antena and inceases the loop area of your RCAs...

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