Dumbest cable question


I know some cables may be directional or at least have some type of arrow showing where to connect each end. However, most do not. Here you go:

Is there any value to rotate your cables every now and then. In other words, switch the source component end with the “end” end. This way signals have a chance to flow opposite direction within the cable  

If this is a super silly question, my apologies.

aberyclark

Showing 1 response by chayro

This is very far from the dumbest question I’ve seen here. Very far. I don’t have an answer for you, but Chris Sommivigo (stereovox/black cat cables) believes that speaker cables carry an AC signal, which is constantly varying back and forth 60 times per second, so no matter which way you orient cables, the signal flow will always be “wrong” in one direction. I don’t know if he’s correct, but many here claim to hear differences when the cable direction is reversed. It certainly won’t hurt the cables to reverse them.