Audiophiles beware, the other senses are more connected than you think.

[Feanor]

I just found this interesting info from an MFG posted on another HE site. Note the last paragraph

"some general recommendations from the goldmund/Job people for cabling, electrical issues, etc...

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The Cabling problems
Choice of cables in an audio system has been very much pushed as a way to improve any system in the press during the last decades. No need to come back on the fact that cables sound different. But what seems less understood is that the sound of a cable is very dependent of the connected components. There is no such thing as the absolute best cable for any type of connection.
In a Goldmund system where the speed of the signal is mandatory and kept very high throughout, coaxial is the only reasonable solution. It is not only the best solution for digital cables, or for interconnect, but is also the best solution for speaker cables.
In addition to the speed that coaxial may help to maintain, the perfect shielding that the best ones may provide is mandatory to avoid oscillations.
But there are also some additional tricks.
To insure a perfect stability in a system, the input cables (interconnects) of an amplifier must absolutely be kept apart from the output cables (speaker cables). Otherwise the high frequency antenna created by the shielding ground of the speaker cable may, if the system is imperfectly earthed, radiate to the ground of the input cable and create a high frequency loop, inducing oscillation of the power amplifier. Run the cables separate or cross them at right angles and your system will be totally immune to this effect.
More, when you use long interconnects to a stereo or multi-channel power amplifier, run them close together, to avoid creating ground loop which will induce hum or buzz if you are in a bad RF area.
And finally, when the choice exist, and you are using Goldmund interconnects and Speaker cables, choose to run longer Speaker cables and shorter interconnects rather than the opposite. Loss of quality is faster in long interconnects than in long Goldmund Speaker cables because the carried impedance is higher.

I certainly believe the part about the cable, input, and output being an interdependent system.

I also note the recommendation that interconnects be kept relatively short at the price, if necessary, of speaker cables being longer.

[Hyfi]

I certainly believe the part about the cable, input, and output being an interdependent system.

I also note the recommendation that interconnects be kept relatively short at the price, if necessary, of speaker cables being longer.

Yeah, the last one baffled me a bit because I have mostly observed people with mono blocks placing them next to the speakers with short speaker cables and longer ICs.