Unconnected Drain Wires ?

Yes Charles does float his entire system (and his older home has ungrounded outlets) but it is also worth noting that Ayre double insulates their component chassis' thus making the endeavor safer.

Chris, I was thinking of floating the ground on my front end by disconnecting the components internal ground wire, rather than doing it at the AC plug end on my Tel Wire cables. Any thoughts on this? If I had to do it on the AC plug end of the Tel Wire cable is it easy enough to do?

I thought about doing it at the receptacle, but someone told me it was better to do it at the component IEC, which I can understand, just don't know what other hazard it might create. I'd definitely prefer not to take apart a cable, especially yours.

Currently using a 5' pair of Grover Huffman speaker cables. Why do you ask? So as not to hijack the thread you can email me offline on this.

As John said Chris is a great guy who is a pleasure to deal with. I'm a satisfied customer and can say the cables are well worth checking out.