What do the arrows mean on my cable?

I spoke with Audience on this. They told me it is just a guide for people to reconnect the cables the same direction when they disconnect and reconnect. Flipping the direction of the cable is fine, it just takes some time to settle in if you do that. If you reconnect in the same manner as the original connection there is no need for the cable to resettle.

Arrows are supposed to indicate signal direction.

I’m having great success using an Audio Envy for SPDIF.

Go figure.

Digital coax is either RCA and/or BNC. In any event digital has much bigger bandwidth and SHOULD be RG6 (equivalent) or better.

Silly rabbit talking about interconnects. 

be sure to plug it into the speaker the right way

My Signal Cable, Audioquest, Transparent, Raven Audio cables all have a directional indicator no matter if it is Digital or Analog.

My Zavfino Cables cables state a direction by instructing you to have the directional shells farthest from the source.

I inadvertently reinstalled the digital cable between my transport and DAC once and my system literally sounded broken.  That was a miserable 5 minutes until I figured out what I did wrong, and once the cable was installed back correctly all was well again.  I have another digital cable with no arrows and the guy who designed it (Chris Sommovigo, RIP) told me it didn’t matter what direction it was installed and he was right — I couldn’t hear any difference installed one way or the other.  Bottom line is, and as others have said, it seems to be very cable specific. 

Probably depends on the manufacturer.

Many of my old Audioquest cables have arrows that indicate the recommended "direction" of the signal -- like if you're connecting a preamp to an amp, the interconnect should be oriented with the arrows pointing at the amp.

Likewise, for source components, the arrows should point away from the signal source and toward the preamp.

Supposedly, the interconnects had directionality that affected the sound, though I could never hear any difference.

Nothing for sure.

You're going the wrong / right way

Are they in a pair? If so likely analog.

I don’t remember seeing arrows on SP/DIF cables. But… That would not be definitive. There are a lot of manufacturers out there.

‘’I have had dozens of analog pairs and a few digital cables over the last 50 years.