Thanks for the detailed response.
Does a choke...do something that's beyond my ability to think of?
â“That is for you to say
Now, there's a Catch-22 for you.
FWIW Currently I only have two cables with a choke — a Thunderbolt 1 that came in the box with an OWC Thunderbay mini RAID enclosure and a USB 3 cable that came with an OWC drive enclosure.
The only cables with chokes I've run across also came from OWC, but they use them inconsistently; they've neither been a "given", nor have I been able to discern a pattern to their use.
It leaves me wondering if they're doing us a favor or if they just bought a cheap job-lot of the things?