Quote: Originally Posted by
hithere 
Braiding wire can help minimize the wire's inductance characteristic...but, especially for low-end frequencies in the range of human hearing, for wire that is some feet (and not miles) in length, this is akin to cleaning old french fries from under your seats in order to reduce your car's weight and make it faster in the quarter-mile.
I have taken many years of electronics classes. I know the formulas and all that. I was simply pointing out WHY he did do it, and that it was silly in the first place.
By the way, we experimented with a similar scenario in class. We took straight wire and braided wire (a few feet), and ran various signals through them and monitored the oscilloscope.
The braided wire had a crisp and clean signal, while the straight wire was fuzzy around the edges.