Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic

@kingrex Your description of the design of the Genesis IC is indeed “different but similar.” The Canare Starquad cable design is even more similar to “Schroeder Method configuration.” The Starquad design has 2 hot, 2 returns and 1 shield. In the Schroeder Method configuration, however, everything (including the shield) is doubled and configured in parallel.

What do you think is being filtered that is improving the sound?  What other ways do you think you could achieve the same ends?

All: I’m adding to my last prior post here to provide more context to the Canare Starquad story and their wiring scheme. As one can see from their wiring diagram, their 2 hot conductors are sliced together in parallel.  Likewise, their 2 return conductors are spliced together in parallel. Note one common shield element, however. 

http://www.canare.com/uploadeddocuments/cat11_p35.pdf

@kingrex I don’t think anything is being “filtered.”

Some speculate that the improved sound qualities perceived during even casual listening sessions is attributed to the parallel configuration having nearly twice the bandwidth of their single-run counterparts, with the attendant reduction in internal reflections for electrical signals transmitted through the parallel configuration relative to their single-run counterparts.

I’m not aware of other ways of achieving this effect. If the “increased bandwidth” speculation is the correct attribution to the audible improvements in reproduced sound, then interconnect designers should devote their energies to designing cables having the greatest bandwidth possible. But even then, implementing the Schroeder Method to those cable designs should yield further improved sonic benefits over their best single-run counterparts.