I’ve never heard and extended ground or shield, as in unconnected at the destination end...I’ve never heard one sound good.
To get to a good sound quality, the ground loop has to be corrected at the equipment level, not the cable level.
As for shield and ground being different, yes. but for simplicity’s sake, I stated it the way I did.
Never heard a single shielded cable sound any good, in the realm of unbalanced, or single ended.
Fix the system as it can’t be properly addressed at the cable level. If one tries to fix it with the cable connectivity end of the deal, one is asking too much and doing it in the wrong ways.
Just my experience.....
I cam see the sense of it with MM/MC signals and microphone level signals, but one has to be careful with the mechanical of the cable design.
With line level field bloom and intensities, we get to a point of interference/interaction with signal by the ground/shield. This makes the cables sound plain bad. In such a case, fix the room, fix the interference, fix the design flaws....and go with unshielded cables.
All Teo audio cables are unshielded and unscreened.
I took a 8M balanced liquid metal cable(GC balanced), totally unshielded.... and placed it mixed in with 6-7 different active AC power cords, into a high gain integrated, and high sensitivity speakers.. Volume potntiometer wrapped right around..wide open...and..not one single bit of detectable hum or noise, or interference of any kind. Just..transistor noise.
To get to a good sound quality, the ground loop has to be corrected at the equipment level, not the cable level.
As for shield and ground being different, yes. but for simplicity’s sake, I stated it the way I did.
Never heard a single shielded cable sound any good, in the realm of unbalanced, or single ended.
Fix the system as it can’t be properly addressed at the cable level. If one tries to fix it with the cable connectivity end of the deal, one is asking too much and doing it in the wrong ways.
Just my experience.....
I cam see the sense of it with MM/MC signals and microphone level signals, but one has to be careful with the mechanical of the cable design.
With line level field bloom and intensities, we get to a point of interference/interaction with signal by the ground/shield. This makes the cables sound plain bad. In such a case, fix the room, fix the interference, fix the design flaws....and go with unshielded cables.
All Teo audio cables are unshielded and unscreened.
I took a 8M balanced liquid metal cable(GC balanced), totally unshielded.... and placed it mixed in with 6-7 different active AC power cords, into a high gain integrated, and high sensitivity speakers.. Volume potntiometer wrapped right around..wide open...and..not one single bit of detectable hum or noise, or interference of any kind. Just..transistor noise.