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Twisted or Straight?

I searched Audiogon for info on inductance and capacitance. From an excellent post by Sean on March 24, he explains that inductance increases with wire spacing ant that capacitance increases as wires move closer together. Therefore, a twisted pair raises capacitance as contact between wires is increased. On the other hand, I'm a bit confused in that I thought winding wire would increase inductance.
Here is my question: For an ac power cable running from the panel box to the outlet, would it be better to run twisted wire or straight (i.e., parallel) wire? Specifically, I'm referring to twisting the hot, neutral and ground vs. having them run parallel? I've read strong preferences for both. Per Subaruguru's post, straight romex increases inductance and allows unwanted high frequencies to roll off. Other posts suggest that twisted is better. Please help me sort this out since I am running dedicated lines to my stereo. Thanks in advance.
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glen
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And don't forget the Isolated ground rod (Star configuration of course), ceramic fuse box with glass fuses, I.G recptacles (Hospital grade minimum) Isolation transformer, Isolated generator, Isolated sub panel (with oversized feeders) U.P.S. battery backup, Oversized neutral, oversized ground, isolated ground, dirty ground, dedicated neutral, #6 copper wire (Beldon shielded cable) Industrial grade 3 phase service with bolt on breakers. Twenty seven dedicated 120 volt circuits and three ninty amp 240 volt circuits (just in case)

Did I miss anything? :^)
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glen
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Actually Bob I do subscribe to some of it :^)
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glen
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Thanks Will, I completly forgot about the Virgins :^)

Just as long as your having fun and not burning down the house it really doesn't matter what you do IMO.

I ran six dedicated circuits to start and am now kicking myself I didn't run ten. There's just something about isolating every component, sub woofer and powered woofer section that really turns me on, and this time I'm being serious

The noise floor dropped dramatically with three circuits to two seperate systems. I can't help but wonder how much lower it can go.
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Bob,

It's really not that much more labor to run three circuits as opposed to one. I ran the circuits in 3/4" pipe (One to each location). Then pulled the wire, made up the devices, terminated the breakers, test the system and BINGO WE HAVE A WINNER! I actually have room in the conduits to pull more circuits but that sounds to much LIKE WORK!!!
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