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Re: My comment was not just about speaker cables...

As I pointed out, the original subject of the thread was speaker cables. However, your point about interconnects is well taken. I also have found problems with hum and noise pickup in interconnects but since I keep mine short, I only have had a problem with magnetic phono cartridge leads. But this is a very easy and inexpensive problem to remedy. I have always had success using a method similar to the suggestion Jon Risch posts on his web site and that is to apply an additional layer of aluminum foil and a bare ground wire on the outside of the cable and just ground it at both ends. In my experience with long runs of coaxial cables where hum and noise induction were of major concern, namely quad jacketed thick Ethernet and quad jacketed token ring network cables, the method is similar. Yet these cables cost nothing even remotely approaching many of the more modestly priced audio interconnects per foot and I usually had to buy them in teflon. So how do we get from square zero to square one with a correlation between what we measure and what we hear. It seems to me that the first order of business is to find out what we actually can and can't hear using a methodical study, not anecdotes. But then the subject of scientific listening tests comes up and I don't want to start a flame war, at least not this soon since I just began posting here today.

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