Thanks all for the great comments. I understand that the capacitance and the inductance are not the whole picture for most high-end audio gears. Like what I said earlier, I have a preamp that uses a 100K attenuator at the output and I need 10 ft of ICs between preamp and power amp.
Let me use an example to illustrate my point. Take Cardas Golden Cross ICs as an example. According to its website, the capacitance is 25.5 pF/ft. For 10 ft ICs, it yields 255pF.
Since the preamp attenuator has 100K max resistance, let's assume 50K ohm output impedance. With these two numbers, let's compute the 3dB roll-off freq, Fc.
Fc = 1/(2*Pi*R*C) = 12.5 KHz
As you can see, the highs are significantly rolled in this configuration! Hope it all makes more sense now.
Let me use an example to illustrate my point. Take Cardas Golden Cross ICs as an example. According to its website, the capacitance is 25.5 pF/ft. For 10 ft ICs, it yields 255pF.
Since the preamp attenuator has 100K max resistance, let's assume 50K ohm output impedance. With these two numbers, let's compute the 3dB roll-off freq, Fc.
Fc = 1/(2*Pi*R*C) = 12.5 KHz
As you can see, the highs are significantly rolled in this configuration! Hope it all makes more sense now.