In regards to the split ground, watch this. It's worth the time.
https://youtu.be/vALt6Sd9vlY
It seemed like it had a lot of interesting information, if the guy is right.
From what I understand, in my specific case, I would actually want split ground plains because of the low frequencies that occur in audio.
But I am still in doubt as to what way is the best to bridge the ground plain together?