Hifi, why bother?

[Mark Hennessy]

Balanced audio connections over a half-metre distance are utterly pointless in most scenarios.

Don't you mean under a half-metre distance.... ?

Andy

Yes, that was badly worded - I meant "over" as in a bridge over a river - so when carrying audio over a half-meter distance, which is different to "carrying audio distances over half a metre". The context was clear though, which should have helped to clear up the ambiguity: domestic audio interconnections, such as connecting a CD player to an adjacent amplifier. But selectively quoted, it is unclear, I agree.

Sorry for any confusion, but at least it's reassuring that someone was reading what I wrote.