Furutech Nanoflux speaker cables


Are Furutech Nanoflux speaker cables directional?  If they are how do you know which is the amp end and which is the speaker end?  I only found one article at Positive Feedback that said the noise filter should be closer to the source but I haven't been able to find any information that would confirm that and the person who lent me his cables swears it goes the other way.  I have listened, and do hear a real difference but it is unclear to me which is "better".

 

pinwa

@richardbrand If you actually look at any website that lets you purchase these cables, instead of generalizing from other cables, you would see that you can specify whatever connector you want for either end.  They don't "come" configured a specific way.  

@stephenjfoster Believe what you will, but unless you are willing to listen your opinion has no real validity in my opinion.  It isn't like I don't understand the basic physics and electrical engineering that supposedly governs what a cable can and can't do.

@pinwa and god created the earth in 6 days a few thousand years ago.

My point was it is a waste of time to try and reason with the true believers. Logic just doesn't apply in your world.

Enjoy your system.

 

 

Top-of-the-Line Furutech Nanoflux NCF Speaker Cable
Comes with CF-201 NCF(R) Spades for the Amplifier and CF-202 NCF(R)
Bananas for the Speaker Other Combinations on Request

this is off their website, unless you have the one in 1 million where a guy orders it the opposite. Most likely when they talk about other combinations it’s spade to spade or banana to banana. Also there are different sizes of spade connectors,

i’m pretty sure that if you hook them up the way the manufacturer says and leave them there for a couple days and then do a switcheroo. You will definitely be able to tell which way is correct hopefully.

sorry about having to deal with the CDs(Cable deniers). I remember once when I got a pair of MIT Speaker cables that made it so that you could hear the ridges of the thumb as it strummed across guitar Yet after a week, it began to hurt my ear so bad that I ripped them out of the system. Luckily for me I found The Cable Company and they gave me a really good trade-in and now I’m rocking synergetic research foundation speaker, and four power cables(Plus some Audioquest, monsoon, black beauty, carbon special cables) No way does lamp cord sounds this good.

 

@gkelly The guy I borrowed these from showed me the invoice where he specified bananas at the amp end and spades at the speaker end.  He must be the one in a million.  And The Cable Company lets you specify terminations for each end of the cable according to amp and speaker sides.  I agree it is a little unusual to specify spades for the speakers but you need to realize that every Wilson speaker made only takes spades so definitely not one in a million there.

The simple fact is where the terminations are doesn't say anything about what directionality the cables might have.

@pinwa "Someday I hope you and @roadcykler and all the other deniers actually get to hear high end systems that permit you to do A/B listening tests of different components that simply can’t possibly make a difference but do. Hearing is believing."

I’ve come across MANY many people in the audio hobby that can’t tell the difference between amps and between dacs. To believe these people can tell the difference if they just give cables a try is just not gonna happen.

" I agree it is a little unusual to specify spades for the speakers"

If you have kids, they can easily break off the banana plugs when inside the speaker if they just step on it. I’ve had it happened before. Spade would be almost impossible to break in this situation.

One final note I'd like to add about cable. The cable deniers also never care for the quality of the terminal connectors of cable. Which IMO is silly thinking.