Nordost cables? What kind? I believe that their flat design similar to parallel connection of capacitors if the equivalent circuit of these cables will be drown. If capacitors are connected in-parallel the resulting capacitance adds up but not eliminating.
I will suggest re-terminating a professional interconnect cables(since they're usually longer than .5m). They have a great design where the ground wire is twisted and the signal wire is straght. In professional audio systems the passive components very oftenly used for the mixing and recording.