Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic

Well it most certainly is the right tool to put the flat-earthers back on their heels ( at least the ones who claim that cables couldn’t possibly make a difference ). Unfortunately the measurement chapter still has a bone to gnaw on since the measurements the doubling produces does predict a large performance increase. That being said there is something else going on with this concept I feel goes beyond the predictions.

So it seems we may win an important battle over the flat-landers but most likely the war will continue, though admittedly on a much different ground but against a weakened foe.

Thanks @taras22 .  I find unshielded ICs to sound more open and natural.  I will build a set of double.  

Yeah, no Lenz's law issues which can really mess up cable performance.

And hope your build works out and meets your expectations.

The HAVE folks make their standard Canare StarQuad RCA-terminated audio IC’s with the braided shield spliced together with the two blue conductors. The specification I asked them to follow for the Dual Canare StarQuad assemblies includes fully-connected shields in parallel with the 4 paralleled blue conductors. So it’s a completely shielded design. 

I ordered an electrically unshielded version of that cable. (The braided shields are not tied to any conductor in the assembly.). We will see how it sounds. 

celander

To shield or not to shield - That is the question.  Thank you for pioneering this with the HAVE Star Quad so there is an apples to apples comparison for RCA.

As I mentioned, I have some HAVE co-joined, shielded XLR ICs and AES/EBU cable(s) coming.    Have successfully used shielded and unshielded XLRs.  Prefer shielded AES/EBU.