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Unless you are running very very long cables (20-30 meters, that kind of thing) it will make no difference at all, but if interference is really a problem then you would be using balanced cables, rather than magic, sorry, gold cables.
In a normal home set-up you would not be able to tell the difference between £500 solid gold 1 inch thick super magic cable and 20p worth of bell wire with no covering on (ie: bare wire).
I was once asked about what an audio breakout box did for the sound coming out of my computer - I told him that it massively helps with audio quality, especially as it was connected digitally into my Yamaha 02R digital mixer, to prove my point I got out an old £5 audio lead and plugged the computer's headphone socket straight into the amp to show the difference - basically bypassing £12,000 of super cutting-edge (for the time) gear.
I was surprised to hear zero difference, absolutely zero, I'd never bothered to test this before, just read the literature, I tested it on other people too, no one could pick out which was the high-end gear and which was the £5 lead, been doing audio professionally for years and years now and I just plug my mac straight into my amp via the headphone socket. If I were to mention this in a mastering session in some big posh west end studio, the engineer would probably scream.