Soundhound: Thank you for confirming my understanding of the construction. I would like to reconfirm that I understood one aspect of you previous comment correctly.

By stating that "Connecting the shield at one end only ensures that crud that is blocked by the shield is not transmitted component-to-component." imply that there is some merit to the validity of the direction arrows?
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