Cable Direction

Roger Sanders of Innersound has an area on his site (innersound.net )with regards to these theories.

I agree with the info on the Innersound site. After having many of the highest of "high-end" cables (or should I say "tone controls"), I find the cables from Innersound to be as good as...or better than any others. The Innersound cables are not directional.

For what it's worth...from BMW to Intel/Microsoft, to IBM, to NASA, wires and signal traces are not thought of as directional.

However, this is a great profit center for many, many audio interconnect/wire companies.

The Nordost website says that Nordost cables are not directional as manufactured, but that after 70 or 80 hours of play, they will sound better in the direction used. They suggest pointing the arrow in the direction of signal flow - obviously just as a marker. It should be a simple matter to flip the direction and test the sound both ways, but I confess to not having tried it.

I asked a friend of mine who is an expert in these things and he says no matter what way you connect the cable the arrow points towards your wallet.

Sincerely, I remain

Nordost must haved had a change in policy, probably because it caused confusion with other brands. A nordost box I have in front of me sais the opposite (at source) of this below from their website:
Question:
What direction should the arrows on the cable
point?

Answer:
Unless otherwise noted on the packaging, speaker cables should
be connected with the directional arrows pointing to the
loudspeakers. Interconnect(signal) cables should be connected
with the arrows pointing in the direction of the signal flow. For
example, from a Tuner, VCR,CD or DVD player the arrows should
go to the preamplifier or amplifier. From the pre-amp the arrows
should go into the amplifier.

Notice the "unless otherwise noted on the packaging".