shielded cables & IC's or not?


I have a noderately high end system with electrostatic hi-bred Prodigy speakers, Solid State equipment- ML336/ML380s/ML390s and Magnum Dynalab FM Tuner all equipment on glass shelves on rack behind one speaker. I live in San Antonio Texas (large city of over 1 mil.)and plug my system directly into the wall (110v). I am using top of the line Monster cable M2.4 and mid line interconnects by monster thinking to upgrade cables. Which type of cable should I consider shielded or not?
electrostaticman

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If someone wants to try, Higwire has Wirewraps for interconnects. Buy an unshielded cable and experiment with the Wirewrap--then you'll know if shielding improves your particular interconnect. I plan to do this experiment with my Tice interconnects.
I recently switched from Phoenix Gold interconnecs (shielded, twisted multistranded design & cooked for a week on a Mobie) to Tice Audio (solid core, unshielded, TPT treated). Simply no comparison...so much music, smoothness of sound and openness!

I still don't know whether a cartridge's signal to the phono preamp should be shielded...