Originally Posted by TJElite

Everyone used to build their own RCA's back in the late 80's. We did it just so the lengths would be right.

Funny, back then, RCA's started to look like water hoses...conductor, shielding, shielding for the shielding, 'drain' for the shielding, etc. Then, at finals one year, Richard Clark showed up with two rolls of 20 ga wire, and some ends. Twisted the wires together with a drill, soldered ends to them and wired up a system on a bench. Then, he threw all sorts of EMF at them...even wrapped them around a turning alternator...no noise, even on a scope. Someone then brought a 'high end' water hose looking cable, and ran the same test. This time, there was noise. It was small, but it was there. It was then that we all learned that the twisting rejects the noise.