Hook up wire shield attachment question
strider
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Feeling lazy, Googled once and didn't find my answer.
Redoing some things in my pre amp. The hook up wire I'm using for the inputs and outputs has a twisted pair with a shield around it. One leg to positive, one to negative. If my memory serves (which it does not sometimes) the shield around the wire gets hooked to ground, but only at one end. Is it the source or the destination end?
Redoing some things in my pre amp. The hook up wire I'm using for the inputs and outputs has a twisted pair with a shield around it. One leg to positive, one to negative. If my memory serves (which it does not sometimes) the shield around the wire gets hooked to ground, but only at one end. Is it the source or the destination end?
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Destination.Political Correctness'.........defined
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You're welcome Ben.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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I thought the shield was supposed to be grounded to the source end of the cable...
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Drains are supposed to go to the lowest impedance end available. For interconnects, this is the output. Inside a pre, use judgement as to which this would be. Probably doesn't matter much.
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Seems we have different opinions, anyone else want to chime in?Political Correctness'.........defined
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The shield in IC's is generally connected at the source end.Internally it would ideally be connected to the components star ground point be it from the input or output end of the cable.
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Ok that's enough confirmation for me, sorry Ben.Political Correctness'.........defined
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Source, although I've tried it both ways and wasn't able to hear a difference."He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
