- Joined: May 2004
- Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Speaking from experience I say none of my cables are shielded, except one for a link I rarely use and didn't suffer from noise in the first place.
The whole shielding issue isn't so much a problem unless you live in the same street as a radio station or something. Most RF interference is out of band, and EMI interference such as transformer pickup isn't usually fixed by shileding interconnects anyways.
Headphone cables definitly don't. Any noise they pickup will be common to both channels and thus the driver won't move. Furthermore noise only couples to high-impedance lines, and if your headphone output is high impedance noise will be the least of your worries
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- Joined: November 2005
- Location: MA
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http://www.minute-man.com/acatalog/F...per_Braid.html is the only site I know that sells it, and it certainly isn't inexpensive. (well, for me) As Garbz said, it really isn't necessary.
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