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does the source and ground need to be equal in an interconnect

post #1 of 4
4/12/10 at 2:39pm
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I have read a lot of web sites, watched the Youtube videos and searched the fourms here....all to be terribly more confused then when I thought I had it figured out.

In a basic RCA to RCA interconnect, does the ground need to be of equal or greater signal strength then the source wire?

my other questions will depend on the answer.
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post #2 of 4
4/12/10 at 2:40pm
They dont have to be equal.

Edited:
there is a school of thought that says that DELIBERATELY making them unequal (with the ground resistance very low, and the signal resistance fairly high) may be to your advantage.
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post #3 of 4
4/12/10 at 3:05pm
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I am going to make a silver interconnect loosely based on the Venhaus recipe. Silver for the ground seems wasteful so will be using this wire:
This wire is silver plated copper, not pure silver. Its core wire is 22awg solid silver plated copper, and perpendicular surrounded by tight fine silver filaments.
I hope it works.
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post #4 of 4
4/12/10 at 3:22pm
Neat!

People have been making dis similar wire IC's for ages, sounds like fun.
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