Michaelhwolf:
You are starting to get it! The answer has nothing to with the things you just outlined. Try this: take all your audio cables and tie them together while still connected to your equipment. Play your system, the hazy sound you will hear is field contamination. Would it not be correct to say the field inside the cable is just as degrading as the field that bleeds to the outside? Now, there is a solution to this problem but that is for another time.
You are starting to get it! The answer has nothing to with the things you just outlined. Try this: take all your audio cables and tie them together while still connected to your equipment. Play your system, the hazy sound you will hear is field contamination. Would it not be correct to say the field inside the cable is just as degrading as the field that bleeds to the outside? Now, there is a solution to this problem but that is for another time.