Swingman wrote:
Strange thing about cables and audio equipment is that often making
the
cables all nice and neat will introduce RFI and magnetic
interference
noises and hum that disappears when the cable is laid in a
haphazard, rat's
nest.
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Makes perfect sense.

When cables are parallel to one another the RFI, etc will "couple"
with one another if the parallel length is long enough.

If the cables are at angles to one another, the "couple" length will
be minimum.

IOW, cluttered cable runs represent good engineering practice.

Lew