Speaker cable arrows???


I bought a used pair of Silverline Audio's Conductor cables. Plugged them in 
and was very pleased with the neutral sound I was getting. Bare wire to the 
speakers, and bananas on the amp end. Then I realized that the arrows on 
the cables where pointing towards the amp. OOPS, I reversed the path 
direction, and couldn't hear any difference. Zero.
My preference would be to have the bananas on the amp end.

Can I disobey the arrows, and run the cables effectively backwards?

markj941

Showing 10 responses by djones51

After they pull wire it goes through annealing and recrystalization occurs. Controlled for direction is market speak. The current doesn't care a whit which way the wire is oriented.
I pulled it from how copper wire is manufactured. I know very little about it and this directional idea got me wondering as it made no sense to me. So I went and found out as much as I could on how they take copoer from the ore stage to the final wire that's drawn through the die and then on to annealing which isn't even the end of it but for this direction of crystals in wire it is.
Annealing where recrystalization occurs makes copper wire more ductile. No hammers required.
No it doesn't matter it's well known that cables are agnostic about directionality.
When you had the cables connected against the arrows did the music play backwards? 
Skin effect isn't worth worrying about in 60htz wiring we aren't talking about microwaves. 
Wireless is both ways my tablet sends and receives the "signal energy" is traveling back and forth just like ethernet and AC in wires.

No, the discussion would be the signal energy is not traveling back and forth from the transmitter to the receiver but rather the signal energy travels in one direction from the transmitter to the receiver.