Steve, I was thinking about XLR digital cable termination and have a question. Take a properly designed digital cable. Inside the cable jacket, the cable is designed to be, and is, 110ohm characteristic impedance. That impedance results from the cable geometry (strand A at whatever distance from strand B with X dielectric etc). To terminate this cable, one must separate the cable strands then solder them into the connector (here XLR). Doesn't separating the strands change the characteristic impedance, therefore creating a source of reflections? Can this problem be avoided?
Tom