Speaker cable arrows???

"Since all wire is inherently directional 🔜 speaker cables, internal speaker and electronics wires, inductors, transformers, digital cables, HDMI cables, fuses, ribbon connectors, capacitors, resistors, et al should be controlled for their inherent directionality during manufacture. The industry, sadly, moves at a snails’s pace. It probably hasn’t even got the memo yet. 🐌 If everything was in the right direction the audible effect of reversing one cable wouldn’t be subtle then, would it?"  THIS IT WHAT I CALL PURE COMEDY!ALSO PURE BS!

I think what it all comes down to is this ;  what is the difference between hearing a difference and imagining that you hear a difference?  This is the essential problem with audiophiles. They don't understand that there is a difference between these two things.They think that they are the same thing. They think that if they imagine there is a difference then that means there actually is. It's very much the same as christians who think that because they believe then that means that their belief must be true.

Whoa! That’s heavy, dude! I’m going to think about that all day! 

I think what it all comes down to is this ; what is the difference between hearing a difference and imagining that you hear a difference? This is the essential problem with audiophiles.

This accusation is tiring to listen to....Like the recurrent placebo effect...And generally decreed by people who have no clue about the way to go to with the embeddings of their audio system , except the totally insufficient rule : buy, plug, and use it....


In my experiments for the last couple of years creating spectacular homemade NO-COST solutions for my audio system, I encounter no placebo effect, and no hearing and imagined hearing alternatives, WHY?


Simply because a long CUMULATIVE series of positive small or bigger audible changes are NOT reducible to auditory illusion... WHY ?


Because they are incrementally and STEP BY STEP created by exploratory experiments, in the mechanical, electrical, and acoustical dimension fields of the audio system of my house....

In a word: a pill that make your heathier each weeks for years is NOT a placebo effect pills....Especially if someone else feel the same after eating it....The mechanical, electrical, and acoustical embedding dimensions are not illusory tweaking obsession of cranks, they are the 3 conditions necessary to gives to yourself the true potential S.Q. of any audio system....


For the directionality of cable, I only go with the advise of the cable seller....I had no opinion about that....

hooo boy. 

hombre, I am imagining you're not here,  but yet you are here. So to prove your theory, don't be here. Good luck.

Audiophiles as a group are the most gullible people on our planet.    True dat!

Are you from Mars, dude? 👽

Do you think we are gullible enough to believe that?????

The wires were clearly mislabeled.  If you want to reverse them now, you will need to burn them in.  I recommend using a flux capacitor to align the quantum tunneling.  

Immediately I had the powerful urge to check on my Straight Wire 'Waveguide' speaker cables, in case there was a 180° reverse situation.
Alas, NO ARROWS are to be found on it.
Short of some metallurgical analysis I decided to go with the flow (of the writing) in place of them badly missing arrows... 
All turned out to be installed correctly this way, thereby preventing them waves guided backwards into my PASS X350.5.
Now I'm sure this one has enough muscle 💪 to chuck them waves right back to my speaker terminals, eh?
Does anyone disagree? 🤔 
Michélle 

justmetoo, so when you decided to go with the writing, you hadn't switched direction? How did you then decide they were correctly oriented? 

Humph, 😟
Tried responding to your enquiry - at length - but post got removed.
Must have blind spot? Seems English is lacking?
In short, system is fine, no need to reverse, all honky dorie.
Very good sound proof of pudding!
Too curtailed to say more... 
Ta ta, M. 

I saw your response, so I responded. After I hit "post" your's was gone. Rendering mine somewhat useless. Hence my delete. HA. Anyway, to sum-up mine.., I'm sure you'll never be wondering....  what if?   Enjoy!

Has there been a troll incursion? Quick, man battles stations! 🚨🚨🚨

@isochronism
Wow, confusion reins supreme, eh?
But thanks for your clarification. 
More on the level, directionaly of speaker cables is not in one of my current believe systems. My deleted post had made that point, alas to facetious? 
However, before some plenty years back, before I came to this learning, I had heard, that if no arrows are present, follow the direction of the cable sleeve print!
So I did... as I recall(ed). 
Now after I'd gone over this here thread, in deed I'd checked whether all was still as I'd recalled, and so it is/was.
Though, just most resently a change from tweeter / mids terminals connection to the bass terminals of the sc, now running the jumpers bottom up so to speak, had a most unexpected sq improvement as a consequence.
More air, tighter bass, better integration over all, even improved tonality. 
Yet please note: the jumpers of ~ 2" length are directional only by best fitting the terminals (of their soldered cable shoes).
Now I hope, this post will pass inspection.. 
M. 

The trouble with the theory that the writing goes is the correct direction is that the manufacturer of cables that don’t have arrows probably don’t believe in directionality OR don’t know about it. Otherwise, they would be 100% sure to put arrows on the cables since, you know, cables in the correct direction sound better. Obviously, on some cables where shields are present the arrows usually simply indicate which direction the shielded cable should go. However the shield is a separate issue so the best case scenario is the manufacturer is cognizant of both types of directionality whilst constructing the cables.

Answer this question. If I have 7 inductors that are L7>L6>L5>L4>L3>L2>L1 that is L7 is greatest and L1 is smallest in that order.

Let’s say I put them all in series, starting with L7 and ending with L1 in that order. And run an AC current through them. Measure the output. That is if you input at L7 then the output would be L1, and vice versa

Now does it make any difference if the input is L7 or L1?

My guess is the objectivists would say no difference since all the L’s are in series so it does not matter if you input the signal at L1 or at L7.

I think I managed to come up with a question that can't simply be looked up on the wikipages :-)  I suspect a few posters here use that to appear smarter :-)

I don't get it, are speaker cables now the same as inductors? 
I was always under the impression they were CONDUCTORS... 
However that all maybe, I'm detecting a strong psychological component here, inducting me to think that if I'd reverse the writing or arrows in the backward way it would give me a case of audio-nervosa non stop, even though it be sounding all the same. 😟 
Maybe time to speak to an analyst about OCD?!? 🤔 
Now may one express this fear without risking the hurtful embarrassment of another post deletion? I'm learning... 
M. 

To make things a bit more complicated, a speaker cable exists in a three dimensional space, therefore the electro-magnetic energy not necessarily confined as in a 2 dimensional circuit diagram for example. 

And to make things even more complicated, an AC current is not AC that is it is not symmetric.  Some of its aspect is sort of like a DC current.  

andy2
To make things a bit more complicated, a speaker cable exists in a three dimensional space, therefore the electro-magnetic energy not necessarily confined as in a 2 dimensional circuit diagram for example.

>>>>>I’m pretty sure that has been covered already. Ad nauseam, actually. We have Poynting vectors up the wazoo.

andy2
And to make things even more complicated, an AC current is not AC that is it is not symmetric. Some of its aspect is sort of like a DC current.

>>>>That is interesting. How does it affect directionality, or does it?

Cables, inductors, capacitors, resistors, power cords, transformers, fuses. They’re all conductors. And all wire is inherently better-sounding in one direction vs the other. It’s not really brain 🧠 surgery.

Geoff, nice to see you still have your square peg this morning. Same hammer?


Andy I think L1 and L2 would have been enough.

Encoded message for Mr. High End Audio Smarty Pants,

https://youtu.be/SXk7TuxrDBI

Yup, same hammer, different square peg. At least you are consistent ... or is that predictable?

Amazing! I must be feeling even better now, doing the RIGHT thing. 😯 
No need to investigate OCD, now going to listen to the correctly flowing sound if music. 
Very good in deed, though not so sure the OP feels any better, still listening to cable ass-ways first being his actual esthetic preference... 🙄
M. 

I welcome all stalkers. I have an open door policy for the closed minded. 🙄

I think I'm gonna be sick. 

What do you mean gonna be, you sick little monkey?

 you sick little monkey?

That's the name of a little movie I saw last night :-)