Jim, speaker cables are antennas for the electrical noise since amplifier has low output impedance only for low frequency signals. Induced noise enters amps input thru the feedback loop.
As for the ferrite - on one hand you need highest permeability, but on the other high frequency response. Self Resonant Frequency (SRF) specification might be useful since above this frequency impedance of the choke for common mode signals will drop like a rock. Read this:
https://www.coilws.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=128
I've been once in the company that had so much of the noise pollution (multiple high frequency seem welders) that nothing worked - not even telephones. Technicians there told me that common rules, like grounding shield on one end only don't even work. At the end they had to put every power cable in conduit. We had to put our equipment, we sold them, in the metal NEMA box with metal mesh screen on the front door glass.
As for the ferrite - on one hand you need highest permeability, but on the other high frequency response. Self Resonant Frequency (SRF) specification might be useful since above this frequency impedance of the choke for common mode signals will drop like a rock. Read this:
https://www.coilws.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=128
I've been once in the company that had so much of the noise pollution (multiple high frequency seem welders) that nothing worked - not even telephones. Technicians there told me that common rules, like grounding shield on one end only don't even work. At the end they had to put every power cable in conduit. We had to put our equipment, we sold them, in the metal NEMA box with metal mesh screen on the front door glass.