No, I got that part. But, being a self professed plebe, as I stated, I focussed on pictures 1 and 2 of things that I could understand, and which I think matter - that being twisted pair vs side-by-side ("zip cord").
There's been a number of threads here about cable "technology" - such as
What can cables do...? or even the
Slicing the BS... thread. Maybe this should have been added to them (deleting, of course, my obviously superfluous and insane posts...)?
This is quite sane, and should be a sticky.
I'll tell you what - JBL had some hoses at CES 2007 running to the Everest II. Either they really mean it, or really wanna sell them. Dunno which. I'm too embarrassed to show you mine...